Property Restoration Services London Ltd are roofers in Wandsworth SW18, working across a borough with an unusually wide spread of roof types: the small 1840s cottages of the Tonsleys, the large hipped-slate villas around Wandsworth Common, the long Victorian terraces of Earlsfield and Magdalen Park, and the flat-roofed apartment blocks on the riverside where the River Wandle meets the Thames. Wandsworth is a core part of our South West London coverage, worked alongside Putney, Roehampton and Southfields. Most enquiries are seen within two working days, with emergency callout for storm damage and active leaks.
Property Restoration Services London Ltd is a roofing company based on Chiswick High Road covering Wandsworth SW18, including Wandsworth Town, Wandsworth Common, Earlsfield, Old York Road and the Wandsworth riverside. The team carries out valley and parapet gutter repairs on the Victorian terraces, hip, turret and shared-stack work on the large villas around the Common, natural slate and leadwork, GRP and EPDM flat roofing, chimney repointing, and emergency callout. Wandsworth's roofs range from tiny 1840s cottages in the Tonsley conservation area to sprawling hipped-slate villas near the Common, so the inspection and the quote are matched to the property rather than run off a template. Standard repairs are assessed on site within two working days, with same day inspection for storm damage and active leaks. All roofing work carries a ten year insurance-backed guarantee, and public liability cover runs to 2 million pounds, 5 million for commercial and block work. Quotes follow a free, no obligation inspection. Call 020 3633 8101.
Few boroughs pack as many different roof types into as small an area as Wandsworth does. Around Wandsworth Town station and the High Street, the Tonsleys are a grid of small two-storey cottages built in the 1840s and 1850s, on streets like Tonsley Hill, Tonsley Street and Birdhurst Road, with modest slate roofs, low parapets and almost no room to get a ladder up at the back. A quarter of a mile away, the villas around Wandsworth Common are some of the largest domestic roofs in south-west London.
Those Common villas, on Bolingbroke Grove, Nightingale Lane, Routh Road, Dorlcote Road and the private Spencer Park estate, typically have a main hipped slate roof, one or two rear ranges each with their own pitch, a valley gutter where the ranges meet, a turret or a canted bay with its own small lead roof, and one or two chimney stacks that sit on or across the party wall and serve both houses. Many are now split into flats. Every junction is a place water can get in, and on a roof this size a stain on a top-floor ceiling can start a long way from the fault. Our Wandsworth roofing round also takes in the large villas along East Hill and West Hill towards the Putney border.
Out towards Earlsfield, the long Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Garratt Lane and Magdalen Road, part of them in the Magdalen Park conservation area with an Article 4 direction, have concealed valley gutters behind the parapet, the butterfly-roof pattern common across inner south-west London. Here the outlets silt up faster than most, with grit and soot off the Wandsworth one-way gyratory and the Trinity Road and Garratt Lane red routes. Old York Road and the Ram Quarter bring converted brewery and warehouse roofs alongside new-build flats, and the riverside at Battersea Reach and Riverside Quarter, where the Wandle meets the Thames, brings single-ply flat roofs and wind-exposed parapets. Wandsworth Council governs planning, scaffold licences and the controlled-parking bay suspensions needed to work on the busier streets.
From concealed valley gutters on the Earlsfield terraces to hip, turret and shared-stack work on the Wandsworth Common villas, we cover the full range of roofing work typical of SW18. Every job starts with an on site assessment before any quote is given.
Repair and re-lining of the concealed valley gutters behind the parapets on the Earlsfield and Magdalen Park terraces, and of the box gutters on the Common villas.
Hips, turrets, bay roofs, the valleys between roof ranges and shared chimney stacks on the large villas around Wandsworth Common and along East and West Hill.
GRP and EPDM rubber for rear extensions and loft dormers, and asphalt, felt and single-ply renewal on the communal and riverside block roofs of SW18.
Repointing, flaunching, soakers and flashings on the tall shared stacks of the Common villas and the terraces, plus Code 4 to Code 6 lead to bays, valleys and flats.
Same day callout for storm damage, slipped slates and overflowing valley gutters across SW18, with temporary weatherproofing until a full repair is scheduled.
Cast iron and aluminium rainwater goods, hopper heads and parapet outlets, plus clearance of the grit and leaf build-up heavy on the gyratory-side streets.
The streets around Wandsworth Common carry some of the largest domestic roofs in south-west London. A typical villa on Bolingbroke Grove, Routh Road or Dorlcote Road has a main hipped slate roof, one or two rear ranges each with their own pitch, a valley gutter where the ranges meet, a turret or a canted bay with a small lead roof of its own, and a chimney stack, often two, sitting on or across the party wall and serving both houses. Every one of those junctions is a place water can get in, and on a roof this size a leak that shows on a top-floor ceiling can start several metres away.
On a villa roof repair we survey the whole assembly, not just the reported leak: the hip and ridge bedding, the valley linings between the ranges, the lead to the turret and bay roofs, the flashings and soakers around the stacks, and the parapet and box gutters at the front. We re-bed hips and ridges in mortar or a mechanically fixed dry-fix system, re-line the valleys in Code 5 lead, and dress lead to the turrets and bays to the correct code rather than patching with sealant. Where a stack is shared, we set out clearly which flashings serve which roof before any work starts.
A few hundred yards from the Common villas, the Tonsleys are the opposite job. Tonsley Hill, Tonsley Street, Tonsley Road, Tonsley Place and Birdhurst Road form a tight grid of small two-storey cottages built in the 1840s and 1850s for workers at the riverside industries and the old Ram Brewery. The roofs are modest: a simple slate pitch, a low parapet to the street on many of them, a small back-addition, and very little room to get a ladder up at the rear.
The whole grid is a conservation area, so repairs are like-for-like: matched natural slate rather than concrete tile, the parapet and its coping kept to the original profile, and cast iron rainwater goods repaired rather than swapped for plastic. Because the cottages are small and terraced, we plan access and any scaffold carefully with the neighbours, and where the street is on a controlled-parking zone we arrange a bay suspension with Wandsworth Council before we start.
Wandsworth's roofs run from 1840s cottage slate to sprawling hipped villa roofs, long Victorian terraces and new riverside blocks, and each needs a different covering. These are the systems we install and repair most often across SW18, and the property types they suit.
Not sure which applies to your roof? We confirm the right system during the free inspection, taking account of the roof structure, the pitch, and whether the street sits in one of Wandsworth's conservation areas.
Every job is priced after a free, no obligation on site inspection, but the general guide below gives Wandsworth homeowners and leaseholders a starting point for budgeting before that visit.
| Job Type | Typical Cost Range |
|---|---|
| Minor repair (slipped slate, single ridge tile) | £150 - £350 |
| Emergency temporary weatherproofing | From £200 |
| Hip and ridge re-bedding (per run) | £350 - £900+ |
| Concealed valley or parapet gutter re-line (per run, scaffold extra) | £650 - £1,800+ |
| Turret or bay lead roof renewal | £900 - £2,500+ |
| Flat roof or chimney repair | £400 - £1,500+ |
| Full pitched roof replacement | Approx. £260 - £290 per m², plus scaffolding |
These figures are a general guide only. Complex villa roofs around the Common, with hips, valleys between ranges, turrets and shared stacks, are quoted after a full survey and can fall well outside a standard range. Call 020 3633 8101 for a written quote after inspection, with no call out charge for the visit.
Please note: the prices shown in the table above are general guide prices. Actual prices may vary and depend on a site inspection of your roof. For a quick quote, click the Get a Quote button below.
The process is the same whether the job is a single slipped slate on a Tonsley cottage or a full valley re-line on a villa near the Common, so you know what to expect before we arrive.
Reach us by phone or through the contact form with your postcode and a description of the issue.
We survey the whole roof, including hips, valleys, turrets, stacks and any concealed gutter, and provide a clear quote before any work begins.
Our roofer completes the agreed work, matching slate, lead and mortar to the existing roof where the job is a repair.
You receive a written summary of the work completed along with any maintenance advice, such as when a valley outlet is next due for clearance.
Sprayed polyurethane foam under the slates turns up across SW18. On the Earlsfield and Tonsley terraces it is usually a loft conversion where foam went onto the sloping ceiling; on the larger Common villas it is sometimes a whole roof void sprayed to warm a cold top floor. Either way, since 2023 most mortgage lenders and RICS surveyors record it as a defect, because the foam hides the rafters and can hold moisture against the timber, and a sale or remortgage stalls until it is dealt with.
We strip open-cell and closed-cell foam off pitched roofs across Wandsworth by hand, working the bonded felt and any softened battens off with it, and leave the rafters clear for a surveyor to sign off. Sound slate is re-used. Where the foam has fused to the back of the slate and will not come away in one piece, we set out a re-slate cost alongside the strip-out so the roof is opened up, cleared and re-covered on a single scaffold.
Wandsworth has a large stock of communal roofs: the Victorian and Edwardian mansion blocks around Wandsworth Common and on East Hill and West Hill, converted villas split into flats across the borough, and the riverside developments at Battersea Reach, Riverside Quarter and Osiers Road. For managing agents, residents' management companies and freeholders we cost flat roof renewal, parapet and valley work and rolling maintenance, put the specification into a form that carries a Section 20 leaseholder consultation, and will sit in on a directors' or residents' meeting to talk the leaseholders through the options and the disruption.
The photographs below show completed roofing work by our team on the property types found across Wandsworth and SW18: valley gutters, hipped slate roofs, chimney stacks, lead detailing and flat roofs.
As roofers in Wandsworth SW18, we work from Chiswick High Road, and Wandsworth is a core part of our South West London coverage, worked on the same round as Putney, Roehampton and Southfields. We route across the river via Wandsworth Bridge or Putney Bridge and plan Wandsworth visits and material deliveries around it.
Our roofers are directly employed, not subcontracted, so the team that quotes your Wandsworth job carries it out. We are used to both ends of the borough's roof stock, from the small slate cottages of the Tonsleys to the hipped villa roofs and shared stacks around the Common, and we plan scaffold licences and parking suspensions with Wandsworth Council as part of the job. Read more about the team on our about us page.
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Wandsworth is a core part of our South West London round, worked alongside Putney, Roehampton and Southfields, and we are adding area-tagged reviews for SW18 as jobs complete. The points customers raise most often are that the quote matched the final invoice, the whole roof was surveyed rather than just the reported leak, and the scaffold and the street were left tidy.
We cover every part of Wandsworth and the wider SW18 postcode. Our roofers work directly for Property Restoration Services, we are not a franchise or a booking platform passing your job to a third party roofer.
Property Restoration Services London Ltd covers Wandsworth Town, Wandsworth Common and Earlsfield within SW18, along with Putney, Southfields, Balham and Clapham nearby. We aim to carry out an on site assessment within two working days for standard repairs, and offer emergency callout for storm damage and active leaks. Every SW18 postcode is covered, including the Tonsley cottages, the villas around the Common, the terraces of Earlsfield and Magdalen Park, and the riverside blocks at Battersea Reach. On the big villa roofs we survey every hip, valley, turret and stack rather than only the section reported as leaking, because on a roof that size the fault is often well away from the stain. Quotes are provided after inspection, with no call out charge for the initial visit anywhere within our SW18 coverage area.
Alongside Wandsworth we cover the following nearby areas.
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The questions below cover what Wandsworth customers ask us most often.
We aim to carry out an on site assessment within two working days for standard repairs across Wandsworth and the rest of SW18. For storm damage or an active leak we offer emergency callout and try to attend the same day. Wandsworth is a core part of our South West London round, worked alongside Putney, Roehampton and Southfields, and we route across the river via Wandsworth Bridge or Putney Bridge, so it is planned for rather than treated as an outlying area. Once we have inspected the roof we confirm a schedule for any follow up work, so you know when the job will be finished.
We cover every street in Wandsworth and the full SW18 postcode, from the Tonsley cottages and the Old York Road area to the villas around Wandsworth Common and Spencer Park, the terraces of Earlsfield and Magdalen Park, and the riverside blocks at Battersea Reach and Riverside Quarter. We also cover Putney in SW15, Southfields in SW18, and Balham and Clapham nearby, so a job near a postcode boundary is not a problem. Our roofers travel out to SW18 for every job, we do not subcontract Wandsworth work to a third party roofer working under our name.
On the large villas around Wandsworth Common the roof is really several roofs joined together: a main hipped slope, one or two rear ranges, a valley gutter where the ranges meet, a turret or a bay with its own lead roof, and one or two chimney stacks. A leak usually starts at one of those junctions, most often a tired valley lining between the ranges, worn lead to a turret or bay, or a failed flashing around a shared stack, and the water then tracks along the timbers before it shows on a ceiling, sometimes metres from the fault. This is why we survey the whole roof assembly on a villa, not just the room under the stain, before quoting.
As a general guide, minor repairs such as a slipped slate or single ridge tile typically run £150 to £350, emergency temporary weatherproofing from £200, hip and ridge re-bedding £350 to £900 or more per run, a concealed valley or parapet gutter re-line £650 to £1,800 or more per run before scaffolding, and turret or bay lead roof renewal £900 to £2,500 or more. Flat roof or chimney repairs run £400 to £1,500 or more, and a full pitched roof replacement around £260 to £290 per square metre plus scaffolding. See our cost guide table above. Complex villa roofs around the Common are quoted only after a full survey, because the number of hips, valleys, turrets and stacks changes the figure significantly.
Yes. Parts of Wandsworth sit within a conservation area, including the Tonsley grid near Wandsworth Town, the Wandsworth Common area, Magdalen Park in Earlsfield (which also has an Article 4 direction) and the private Spencer Park estate. On those streets we work to like-for-like repair: matched natural slate rather than concrete tile, parapets and copings kept to their original profile, and cast iron rainwater goods repaired rather than replaced with plastic. Where a change needs consent we prepare the scope so it can go to the London Borough of Wandsworth before work starts.
We carry out a free, no obligation inspection before providing a quote. On a Tonsley cottage that is a short visit; on a villa near the Common it means getting onto the roof and checking every hip, valley, turret, stack and concealed gutter, because that is where the faults are. Once you accept the quote we schedule the work and confirm a date. There is no call out charge for the initial inspection visit anywhere within SW18, whether the job is a single slipped slate or a full valley re-line. We give you a realistic idea of timing at the point of quoting rather than leaving you to chase for a start date.
Once you accept a quote we agree a date and confirm what access is needed. On the terraced streets and around the busier roads that often means a scaffold with a licence and a controlled-parking bay suspension from LB Wandsworth, which we arrange before we start. Our roofer carries out the agreed work and, on a repair, matches the new slate, lead and mortar to what is already on the roof. On valley, hip and shared-stack work we check the full assembly for other weak points as standard. Once finished you receive a written summary of what was done and any maintenance advice.
Many of the villas around the Common have a chimney stack that sits on or across the party wall and serves both houses. Responsibility for a shared stack is usually split between the two owners, or set out in the title deeds, and the flashings on each side of the stack serve that side's roof. How it is split differs from house to house and we cannot confirm it without seeing the deeds. We identify exactly which flashings and which part of the stack the fault sits in during the inspection, which is useful if a conversation with a neighbour is needed. Where the repair means working on the shared structure itself, the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 may apply.
Yes, this is one of the most common jobs we do on the Wandsworth Common villas. Where a main roof and a rear range meet, a valley gutter carries a lot of water, and the lead or felt lining fatigues at the laps and the outlet silts up. We lift the slates along both sides of the valley, strip the old lining back to the boards, check the sole boards and firrings for rot, and re-line in Code 5 lead with welted drips and lapped upstands. We check the full run and the outlet at each end, because on a villa the valley often has more than one weak point. This work almost always needs a scaffold for safe access.
Yes. On the hipped slopes of the Common villas and on the tiled roofs of the inter-war streets, slipped or cracked hip and ridge tiles are a routine repair. We re-bed them in fresh mortar, or fit a dry-fix ridge and hip system where the bedding has failed along a whole run and a mechanically fixed solution will last longer. Where the hip iron at the bottom of a hip has corroded or gone missing we replace that at the same time so the bottom hip tile cannot slide.
Yes. It turns up on the SW18 terrace loft conversions and, now and then, sprayed right through a villa roof void near the Common, and in both cases it tends to stall a sale or a remortgage because surveyors and lenders record sprayed foam as a defect. We hand strip open-cell and closed-cell foam off the rafters and slate backs, lift out any felt and battens that come away with it, and leave the roof space open for a surveyor to inspect, with a written record for the lender. If the foam has fused to the back of the slate we quote the re-slate alongside the strip-out so it is one scaffold and one visit.
Most like for like repairs do not need planning permission. Work that changes the roofline, adds rooflights or dormers to a front-facing slope, sits within a conservation area, or is on a street with an Article 4 direction such as parts of Magdalen Park is more likely to need consent, and on a flat or maisonette you will usually also need the freeholder's permission regardless of planning. We flag anything that may need consent during the inspection so you can check with the London Borough of Wandsworth before proceeding, rather than assuming a straightforward repair and finding out otherwise once the job has started.
Yes. Between the mansion blocks around the Common and on East and West Hill, the converted-villa flats and the riverside schemes at Battersea Reach and Riverside Quarter, a lot of our SW18 work is communal. We write the specification and costings so they carry a Section 20 leaseholder consultation, produce condition reports and reserve-fund figures for forward planning, and will attend a directors' or residents' meeting. Flat roof renewal, parapet and valley work and rolling maintenance on communal roofs are routine for us across the borough.
Isolated slate or ridge repairs on a cottage or a terrace can often be done from a roof ladder or a tower. Valley, hip, turret, parapet and shared-stack work, and almost any job on the large villa roofs around the Common, needs a scaffold for safe access. On the Trinity Road, Garratt Lane and York Road red routes that also means a scaffold licence and a controlled-parking bay suspension from LB Wandsworth, which we arrange before we start. We plan the scaffold to be up for the shortest time possible and check rear access and neighbour agreements where it has to bridge two properties.
Yes. We inspect roofs for buyers before exchange and for owners scoping a loft conversion who need to know what the existing roof is like before the drawings are done. On a villa the survey covers the hips and ridges, the valleys between ranges, the turret and bay lead, the stacks, the parapet and box gutters and any signs of water ingress; on a terrace it covers the slate, the concealed valley and the flashings. A written report follows, which is useful evidence for a buyer negotiating or for an architect planning the roofing element of a conversion.