Greystanes roof repairs, restoration and re-roofs

Greystanes spreads west from the Cumberland Highway toward Prospect Hill and the reservoir, with Greystanes Creek running through it. It is a suburb of larger blocks and larger houses than most of the Cumberland belt — a lot of 1960s and 70s brick veneer with substantial single-storey roof planes, plus newer two-storey stock on the western edges.

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Big roofs, big volumes

The defining physical fact about Greystanes roofing is area. A wide, simple hip roof catches a great deal of water, and in a Cumberland Plain summer storm it delivers that water to the gutter in minutes. Whether the drainage copes is decided by things nobody looked at when the house was built: the number of downpipes, their diameter, whether the stormwater line below them is still clear.

When it does not cope, the overflow soaks the ground hard against the footings. On reactive shale-derived clay that is not harmless — it drives the seasonal swelling that cracks ridge pointing and keeps cracking it.

Hail

Greystanes sits in the part of the basin that the Bureau most often covers with large-hail warnings. On a tile roof that has lost its surface and gone porous, a hailstone cracks it. On steel, the same stone leaves a dent and the roof keeps working. That difference drives a lot of the tile-to-metal conversions around here — see metal and Colorbond roofing.

After an event, make-safe first and documentation second: storm and emergency roof repairs.

The maintenance list

• Rebed and repoint ridge and hip capping with flexible compound.
• Replace cracked and slipped tiles with matched profiles.
• Clear and repair valleys before the autumn leaf fall.
• Add downpipe capacity where the roof area warrants it.
• Check the fascia behind any gutter that has been overflowing.

Nearby

Also serving Girraween, Merrylands and South Wentworthville. Full coverage on the service areas page.

Call (02) 9090 4741 or request a free quote.