Metal roof replacement in St Albans

Much of St Albans was built in the 1950s and 60s, when the suburb grew fast with post-war migration. Those brick veneer and weatherboard homes mostly went up with galvanised iron or concrete and terracotta tile roofs, and many are still on their original roof. Alongside them are the units and townhouses that have replaced older homes on subdivided blocks.

On the older homes, the usual story is iron rusted through at the laps and around the nails, tiles that have cracked or slipped, and ridge capping with its bedding breaking away. The battens underneath are often the originals too. On the newer townhouses the issues are different: box gutters between units, and valleys and flashings where several roofs meet.

St Albans sits on flat, open country, so there's not much to slow a strong northerly or westerly before it reaches the roof. Wind-driven rain is what finds tired laps and loose fixings, which is why a lot of leaks here only show up in a storm.