Roof restoration and repairs in Bedford Park

Roofs on Bedford Park homes

Bedford Park is about 11 km south of the CBD, in the City of Mitcham, with part of the suburb in the City of Marion. Mitcham has two sides. On the plains, suburbs like Mitcham, Kingswood, Torrens Park, Hawthorn and Colonel Light Gardens are full of character homes with iron and terracotta roofs. Up the hill, Belair, Blackwood, Eden Hills and Coromandel Valley have sloping blocks, split-level homes, tall trees and bushfire risk.

Popular roofing jobs in Bedford Park

• Like-for-like iron and terracotta re-roofs on character homes
• Repointing and restoring tiled roofs on post-war homes
• Heritage-sensitive roof work in Colonel Light Gardens
• Rebedding and repointing ridge capping before it lets water in

What Bedford Park roofs have to cope with

Adelaide summers regularly pass 40°C, and the heat and UV break down roof coatings and the pointing along the ridges. Summer storms then find any weak spot. On an older tiled roof in Bedford Park, a check of the ridge capping, valleys and broken tiles every few years catches small problems before they turn into a leak.

Before you book

If your home was built before about 1990 and has a grey fibre-cement roof, assume it may contain asbestos: more than 10 square metres must be removed by a licensed removalist. For everything else, the rules are simple. Make sure whoever you hire holds a South Australian building work contractor's licence and gives you a written contract for work of $12,000 or more. Council approval usually isn't needed in Bedford Park for repairs, restorations or a like-for-like re-roof. Parts of the City of Mitcham are within Historic Area or Character Area Overlays under the Planning and Design Code. Like-for-like repairs are rarely an issue, but changing the roof's material, colour or shape where it can be seen from the street may need development approval. If you have solar panels, the quote should include an electrician to take them off and refit them.