Pitched roofing specialists

Pitched roofing is the tiled or slated sloped roof on most UK homes, and the work that keeps it watertight. Whether you need a handful of slates re-fixed, a full strip and re-cover, or a roof whose pitch needs rebuilding, the right specialist matters: a pitched roof is a system, and every layer has to be right for the covering on top to do its job.

What pitched roofing covers

• Tiling: laying, repairing and replacing concrete and clay roof tiles, including ridges, hips, valleys and verges.
• Slating: natural slate work, a trade in its own right. Slates are sorted, holed and double-lapped by hand, and a slater who does it week in, week out is worth insisting on.
• Battens and membrane: the treated timber battens the covering hangs on and the breathable underlay beneath them. These are the layers that quietly fail first on older roofs.
• Re-pitching: structural correction where a roof's slope is too shallow for its covering or has moved over time, from adjusting a small section to rebuilding the timber structure.

When you need a pitched roofing specialist

Slipped or missing tiles after a storm, daylight visible in the loft, gritty tile debris in the gutters, or a ceiling stain that grows in heavy rain all point at the pitched covering. If the roof is mid-life, a local repair usually sorts it. If the covering is at the end of its lifespan, or the felt beneath it has gone brittle and torn, patching becomes a subscription and a re-roof is the better spend. A shallow-pitched extension roof that leaks persistently may need re-pitching or a different covering entirely, because every tile and slate has a minimum pitch it can keep watertight.

How the work runs

A proper pitched roofing job starts with an inspection, not a price over the phone. The roofer confirms what the covering, battens and membrane actually need, then quotes in writing. On a re-roof, scaffolding goes up first, the old covering is stripped, the timbers are checked and repaired where needed, new membrane and battens go on, and the new covering is laid with matching ridge and hip details and leadwork dressed around chimneys and abutments. Most re-roofs take 3 to 7 working days once the scaffold is up.

What pitched roofing costs

These are the 2026 supplied-and-fitted rates per square metre from our new roof cost guide, which also breaks down whole-house prices by property type and region:

Why use a vetted pitched roofer

Pitched roofing hides its shortcuts. Skipped underlay laps, unsorted slates and reused battens all look fine from the pavement and fail years later, long after the van has gone. Every roofer we refer is vetted for insurance, trading history and the quality of recent work, and you can check their quotes against the fair rates above before committing. Get up to three itemised quotes through our free quote service, with no obligation to accept any of them.