Roof Restoration & Repairs Brighton

Brighton is one of Melbourne's grand bayside suburbs, with everything from period Victorian and interwar homes to big modern rebuilds. A lot of the established homes have terracotta or concrete tile roofs, and being right on Port Phillip they cop constant salt air, which is hard on pointing, on valley irons and especially on guttering.

I will be upfront about one thing. Some of Brighton's grand old homes have slate roofs, and slate is a specialist trade of its own that I do not take on. What I do, and do well, is restore terracotta and concrete tile roofs, re-point ridge caps, replace broken tiles and replace salt-worn guttering. There is plenty of that across Brighton's tile-roofed homes.

On Brighton's bayside tile roofs, the salt air drives most of what we see:

• Perished pointing on period terracotta ridge caps, accelerated by salt air

• Rusted, salt-eaten guttering and valley irons

• Faded, chalky tiles from constant coastal UV and salt

• Cracked or slipped terracotta tiles on older homes

• Rotting fascia timber behind failed coastal guttering

• Moss and lichen on the shaded, sheltered faces

On the bay, guttering and pointing wear faster than inland, so a restoration with fresh salt-tough coating and new guttering pays off sooner around Brighton.