Crieff has some of the best slate roofs in Perthshire and some of the most demanding ones to work on. Steep Victorian pitches, exposed sites, and a hundred and fifty years of weather. We cover Crieff and the wider Strathearn area for repairs, reroofing and storm damage.
Crieff is really two building stories sitting next to each other.
Crieff is a Victorian town and it looks like one. The hydropathic era left it with a large stock of substantial stone villas, terraces and townhouses, most of them roofed in natural slate on sarking, and a good many of them with steep pitches — the classic tall Victorian roof, often with dormers, turrets, bay projections and multiple chimney stacks.
They are excellent roofs. They are also, now, at the age where the original nails have reached the end of their working life, and where a century of Perthshire weather has done what it does to lead, mortar and timber.
Around the Victorian core there’s the usual mix — post-war housing, modern estate development, bungalows — with the more modern set of problems: tile, roofline, flat-roofed extensions.
The pitches are steep. A steep Victorian slate roof is not a ladder job. It needs proper scaffold, edge protection and roof ladders, and the work takes longer because everything is done from a fixed position rather than moved around freely.
If you get a quote for a Crieff slate roof that doesn’t include serious access provision, ask how they intend to get up there safely — because the answer matters to you as well as to them.
It’s higher and it’s more exposed. Crieff sits on rising ground with the Highlands immediately behind it, getting more wind, driven rain, and snow than Perth.
Long-neglected roofs are common. A lot of the larger Victorian properties here have had patch repairs for decades rather than a proper reroof.
When we strip one, the sarking underneath is frequently rotten over a much wider area than the visible leak suggested. We price for that honestly and we show you photographs of it before we replace it. See new roofs and reroofing for how that works.
Leaks traced to the actual source, not the stain on the ceiling
Full strip and reroof, new sarking, proper ventilation
GRP, EPDM and felt for extensions, garages and dormers
Natural and reclaimed slate, matched to the original
Repointing, rebuilding, proper lead flashings
Fascias, soffits, downpipes, eaves ventilation
Make-safe first, then the repair, with insurance reports
By hand. Never pressure-washed.
Inveralmond, Ruthvenfield, Arran Road and the city’s units
We’re three miles away. That’s not a marketing line — it’s the difference between same-day and next week when your roof is open.
We don’t oversell. A thirty-year-old concrete tile roof in Scone very often needs its ridge rebedding and its gutters sorted, not replacing. We’ll tell you that, and we’ll quote you for what you actually need.
We work on both halves of the village. Traditional slate in the old core and modern tile on the estates — different trades, and we do both.
About eighteen miles. We cover it as standard and we’ll tell you honestly at the point of quoting if travel affects anything.
Not a problem, but it does mean proper scaffold and roof access rather than a ladder — which is itemised on your quote so you can see what it costs. Anyone offering to work a steep Victorian slate roof off a ladder is cutting a corner you don’t want cut.
Wind uplift on an exposed site, on mortar bedding that’s failed. Rebedding helps; a dry ridge system, which fixes mechanically rather than relying on mortar, solves it properly.
Usually, with reclaimed slate. Scottish quarries are effectively closed, so new Scottish slate doesn’t exist — but reclaimed is available and we’ll match size and coursing.
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