Kinross is open country beside a large loch, which means the wind arrives with nothing in its way. If you live here, you already know what that does to ridge tiles. We cover Kinross, Milnathort and the surrounding Kinross-shire villages.
Kinross is really two building stories sitting next to each other.
Blairgowrie and Rattray face each other across the Ericht, and between them they hold a solid stock of Victorian and Edwardian stone housing under natural slate.
They feature the same construction as Perth’s older streets, built on sarking, with the same set of age-related problems now arriving.
Around that Victorian core, there’s mid-century and modern housing with tile roofs, plus bungalows and estate developments expanding the area.
What makes Blairgowrie genuinely different from anywhere else we cover is what surrounds it.
Kinross has an older stone-and-slate core, particularly along the High Street and out toward the loch, plus Milnathort a couple of miles north with a similar traditional stock.
Around and between them is a great deal of modern housing — Kinross is very much a commuter town, sitting on the M90 between Edinburgh and Perth, and it has grown accordingly.
So the roofs split roughly the same way they do in Scone: traditional slate on sarking in the old parts, concrete or clay tile with uPVC roofline on everything from the eighties onward.
What unites them is exposure.
Kinross sits in flat, open country beside Loch Leven. There is very little between a westerly gale and your roof.
This shows up in the work we get called out to in a way it simply doesn’t in sheltered parts of Perth.
The Most Common Fixes:
Horizontal Rain & Storms: Rain arrives horizontally and gets up under laps. On a reroof, headlap must be specified for exposure.
We see more storm damage per house here than almost anywhere else. We make safe first, then repair with full photos and written reports for your insurer.
Working Away During the Day: A lot of Kinross residents work in Edinburgh or Perth and aren’t home during the day.
We tailor our service around your working hours so you don't need to take time off.
You don’t need to be there for the survey. We can access most roofs, photograph everything, and send you the report and the price.
You review everything conveniently in the evening.
Tell us if the house is empty during the day. It changes nothing about the work, but it means we’ll agree access arrangements properly up front.
This avoids turning up and finding nobody in.
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 specify for the exposure. Headlap, ridge fixing and verge detail on an exposed Loch Leven site are not the same as on a sheltered street in Perth, and a roof built as though they were will keep failing.
We fix the cause, not the symptom. Rebedding a ridge that’s blown off twice already is treating the symptom. We’ll tell you when a dry ridge system is the answer.
We photograph everything — which matters here, because a lot of Kinross work ends up as an insurance claim.
It’s common in Kinross, and it’s fixable. Mortar bedding fails under repeated wind loading on an exposed site. A mechanically fixed dry ridge system stops it happening again.
Yes — Milnathort, Kinnesswood, Scotlandwell, Powmill and the surrounding area.
Stay off the roof, contain any water inside, photograph everything from the ground, and call us. We make safe first and sort the permanent repair afterwards. Then call your insurer and open the claim.
Yes. We can survey, photograph and price most roofs without you being there, and send you everything to look at in the evening.
Most calls answered inside 30 minutes during working hours.
