Re-roofing & New Roofs
Full strip-and-recover with natural slate, clay tile or concrete tile. Breathable membrane, fresh battens, insulation upgrades, dry-fix ridge and hip.
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Slate, lead and flat roofs, fitted the old-fashioned way — by tradesmen who know their way around a Victorian mansion block and a Grade II stucco terrace. Free written quotes, 10-year workmanship guarantee.
Kensington Roofers is a family-run firm based in West London, fitting and repairing roofs on everything from small Victorian coach houses in the mews to six-storey mansion blocks on the Cromwell Road. We specialise in the materials and details the borough's historic stock demands — natural Welsh slate, hand-cast lead, clay plain tiles, cast-iron guttering and traditional mortar bedding. Every job is done by time-served roofers, not subcontracted out, and every piece of workmanship we carry out comes with a written 10-year guarantee.
From a single slipped slate to a full heritage re-roof, we cover every aspect of domestic and commercial roofing across Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster and the surrounding boroughs.
Full strip-and-recover with natural slate, clay tile or concrete tile. Breathable membrane, fresh battens, insulation upgrades, dry-fix ridge and hip.
Learn more →Slipped or broken slates, tile replacement, cracked cement verges, ridge re-bedding, valley re-lining, rotten timber repairs and full leak investigation.
Learn more →EPDM rubber, GRP fibreglass, torch-on felt and liquid systems for mansard flats, rear extensions, garages and dormer roofs. 20-year guarantees.
Learn more →Repointing, flaunching, lead flashing replacement, pot changes, full rebuilds and chimney removals — including structural calculations where needed.
Learn more →Hand-cast sand-cast and milled lead to BS EN 12588. Valleys, gutters, flashings, bay roofs, parapets and decorative leadwork on listed properties.
Learn more →Cast-iron replacements and repairs, uPVC replacements, hopper heads, gutter cleaning and rainwater system redesigns to modern drainage standards.
Learn more →Storm damage, active leaks, fallen chimneys and make-safe tarping — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Usually on site within 60–90 minutes locally.
Learn more →Conservation-area and listed-building roofing. Breathing-roof specifications, reclaimed materials, sympathetic repair detailing and liaison with conservation officers.
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Walk down any street in SW7 and you'll see roofs that were done properly forty years ago sitting next to roofs that were "fixed" last summer and are already leaking. The difference isn't the materials — it's whether the person fitting them knew what they were doing.
Every one of our roofers has served a proper apprenticeship. We don't use day-labour gangs. We don't sub jobs out to the cheapest bidder. When you get a quote from Kensington Roofers, the people you meet at the site visit are the people who'll be on your roof.
That's why our warranty work is vanishingly rare — and why we're happy to guarantee our workmanship for ten years in writing.
About Our Firm£5 million public liability, £10 million employer's liability, CITB-registered, CSCS-carded operatives, CHAS and SafeContractor approved.
Scaffold is specified, costed and itemised at quote stage. No midway surprises. We work with two long-standing West London scaffolders for reliability.
We fit established brands — Marley, Redland, Klober, Firestone, Welsh slate quarries — so replacement parts and warranty support stay available for decades.
Dust sheets inside, boards to protect landings, tidy skip management, radio off when asked. We work in the same streets our clients live on — we behave like it.
We work across all of West London, with dedicated crews for Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham.
Full re-roof on our Victorian terrace off Holland Park Avenue. Turned up when they said they would, tarped nightly, never left a mess. The lead flashing work around our chimneys is honestly a thing of beauty. Worth every penny.
Had three quotes for a slipped valley on our mansion flat. Kensington Roofers were the middle price but the only firm who actually went up to look at it properly before quoting. Proper, knowledgeable lads.
Emergency callout at nine on a Sunday evening — a ceiling had come down after a chimney leak. They were on-site within the hour with a tarp, came back Monday with scaffold and had the whole thing properly repaired by Friday. Brilliant service.
Our listed property needed conservation-approved slate repairs and they handled the liaison with RBKC's conservation officer, sourced reclaimed Welsh slate, and did a better job than the firm that originally re-roofed it in the 90s.
Kensington's housing stock is unlike anywhere else in London. We know the peculiarities of the Cadogan Estate's stucco terraces, the shared mansard roofs of the Portman and Grosvenor mansion blocks, the fragile mews cottages converted from stables, and the conservation requirements that apply to almost every street in the borough.
We've worked on roofs going back to the 1830s, and on new-build commercial roofs going on this year. The skills are the same — it's just a question of which materials to use and how to detail them.
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