Roofers in Naas.
Roofers for Naas, from the slate roofs along Main Street and the streets off it to the estates on the edges of town and out towards Sallins. We look at the roof, give you a written price for the repair and send you photos when the work is done.
Naas has an old centre under natural slate and a ring of newer estates under concrete tile, and the two need different repairs.
We repair both: slipped and broken slates, ridge tiles, lead flashing, chimneys, valleys, gutters and the leaks those cause. Repairs only; re-roofs go to a re-roofing contractor.
Ring or send a photo. We come out the same week on most repair calls with no call-out fee for the look, and a written quote follows within 48 hours.
The county town.
Naas is the county town of Kildare, home to the courthouse and the county council, with 26,180 people at the 2022 census. It has also been a commuter town for a long time: the N7 runs to the M50 and the city, the M7 heads south, and Sallins and Naas station is a short drive away. The town grew quickly from the late seventies, and most of that growth was new estates around the old centre.
So a roofer in Naas is really working on two towns. One is the historic core: Main Street, North and South, and the streets off it. The other is everything built around it in the last fifty years.
Main Street and the old centre.
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records a run of buildings on Main Street South dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many with their slate roofs, clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods still in place. A lot of them are shops on the ground floor with rooms or flats above, built as terraces and pairs, with the roof running straight into the next building.
Roofs like those fail in their own way. Slates slip as the old nails rust through. Clay ridge tiles crack and their mortar falls out. Cast-iron gutters rust at the joints, and a blocked hopper at the back of a shop can send water down the inside of a wall for months before anyone notices. Where two buildings of different heights meet, the lead on the taller wall carries all the weather that runs down it, and that lead is often old.
Access on Main Street takes planning. Work from the front means the footpath; work from the back means a yard or a lane. We look at both when we come out, and the quote says which way we will go and what equipment that needs. Where a building is listed or plainly original, we repair in slate and lead to match, not in modern substitutes.
The estates around the town.
Away from the centre the roofs are mostly concrete tile and fibre-cement slate on two-storey houses, many from the late seventies and eighties and plenty from the two-thousands. The repairs there are the familiar ones: ridges and verges where the mortar has gone, a cracked tile over the landing, lead that has lifted where a porch or an extension meets the house, and gutters full of moss.
The Grand Canal's Naas branch reaches the harbour on the edge of the centre. It was opened in 1788 and restored for boats in 1987, and the houses and terraces near it are a reminder that the town was busy long before the estates came. Older or newer, the approach is the same: find the one thing that has failed and repair it.
Repairs we take on in Naas.
Priced from photos taken on the roof.
- 01Slipped and broken natural slates refixed with tingles or replaced to match
- 02Clay and concrete ridge tiles rebedded and pointed
- 03Cracked and missing concrete tiles and fibre-cement slates replaced
- 04Lead flashing renewed at chimneys, party walls, steps in the roofline and extensions
- 05Chimney stacks repointed and flaunched
- 06Valleys cleared, patched or relined
- 07Cast-iron and PVC gutters, hoppers and downpipes cleared and repaired
- 08Leaks traced to where they get in, inside and out, and that point repaired
From the call to the photos.
The same crew looks at the job, quotes it and does it. You get before and after photos when it is finished.
- First01.
Ring or send a photo.
Tell us whether it is a house on an estate or a building in the town centre, and send a photo of the roof from the street or the yard.
- Then02.
A look and the access worked out.
We come out the same week on most repair calls, with no call-out fee. We photograph the fault and work out how to reach it, front or back.
- Next03.
A written quote within 48 hours.
The repair, the materials and the access, written down, so you know what you are agreeing to.
- Last04.
The repair and the photos.
Done as quoted. You get before and after photos on completion.
Repairs, not re-roofs.
We repair roofs in Naas; we do not re-roof. If the slates on an old Main Street building are slipping on every slope because the nails have gone throughout, that roof needs stripping and re-slating, and that is a job for a re-roofing contractor. We will tell you so from the photos and not sell you a patch.
Roofing questions.
Anything else, ring 085 781 4603.
Can you repair the roof over a shop on Main Street?
Yes. We work out access from the front or the back when we come out, repair in slate and lead to match the building, and put the access in the quote. If the building is a protected structure, we repair like for like.
Water is coming in. How soon can you get to Naas?
Tell us water is coming in when you ring and we come as early as we can. A photo of the ceiling and the roof above it helps us bring the right materials.
Do you cover the towns around Naas too?
Yes. Sallins, Johnstown, Kill and Newbridge are all covered, as is the rest of Kildare, Dublin and Wicklow. Our Kildare page has more on the county.
Is there a charge for coming out to look?
No. The look and the photos cost nothing. A photo from the ground is often enough to give you a price before we call out.
More on roofing.
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Get your job priced properly.
Send a photo from the ground if you can, or we come out and look from the ladder. One written price inside 48 hours, no call-out fee and no pressure to go ahead.