Perth is an unusually mixed city to work in for a roofer, because you can drive ten minutes and go through a century and a half of building practice
Scone is really two building stories sitting next to each other.
The old village — Old Scone and the historic core around the Palace — is traditional: stone walls, natural slate on sarking, chimney stacks, the same construction you’ll find in Perth’s older streets. These roofs have the same century-plus service life behind them and the same set of problems arriving at the same time.
Then there’s everything built since the 1980s. Scone has grown enormously, and most of the housing here now is modern estate development — concrete tile roofs, uPVC roofline, timber-framed extensions, the occasional flat-roofed garage or porch. Newer estates have gone up right through the last two decades.
That mix matters, because it means we get called out to two completely different kinds of job in the same village, and they need different answers.
On the modern estates: it’s rarely the roof itself. Concrete tile roofs from the eighties and nineties are generally sound and have decades left in them. What fails first, reliably, is everything around them:
A specific point worth making to Scone homeowners: if your house was built on one of the newer developments, it’s worth knowing when your NHBC or equivalent warranty runs out. A lot of Scone houses came out of warranty at roughly the same time, and a survey before something starts leaking is considerably cheaper than a repair afterwards.
Modern estate maintenance • Preventative surveysIn the old village: standard traditional slate work. Nail sickness, chimney flashings, valleys, and slate matching that has to be done sympathetically given the setting.
Traditional slate • Sympathetic restoration
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.
Same day for emergencies. We’re three miles away, so there’s no reason for it to be longer.
Almost certainly not. Concrete tile has decades left at that age. What it probably needs is the ridge and hip mortar sorted and the roofline looked at. We’ll survey it free and tell you honestly.
Depends on whether it’s ponding and whether the deck underneath is still sound. If the felt is brittle across the whole area, replacement in EPDM is the honest answer. We’ll show you photographs either way.
Both, plus the surrounding area out toward Balbeggie and Guildtown.
Most calls answered inside 30 minutes during working hours.
