Roof restoration and repairs in Evanston South

Roofs on Evanston South homes

Evanston South is about 33 km north of the CBD, in the Town of Gawler. Gawler is one of South Australia's oldest towns, with heritage stone homes in the older parts of town and around Church Hill, many with iron roofs and verandahs, and fast-growing new estates on its edges at Evanston Gardens, Evanston South and Gawler East.

Popular roofing jobs in Evanston South

• Iron re-roofs and verandah repairs on heritage stone homes
• Leak, tile and gutter repairs on newer estate homes
• Restoring 1970s–90s tiled roofs
• Fixing tiles cracked by solar, antenna or air-conditioner installers

What Evanston South roofs have to cope with

Many homes in Evanston South are fairly new, so the roof itself is usually sound. The common jobs are leaks around pipes, vents and solar mounts, tiles cracked by installers walking on them, valleys that overflow in a downpour, and gutters and downpipes. If the home is still within the builder's warranty, talk to the builder about defects first.

Before you book

Check three things before you book roof work in Evanston South. First, the licence: anyone contracting for building work in SA needs a building work contractor's licence, and jobs of $12,000 or more need a written contract. Second, approvals: repairs, restorations and like-for-like re-roofs usually don't need them. Parts of the Town of Gawler 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. Third, what's on the roof: solar panels have to come off for most restorations and re-roofs, and an old grey fibre-cement roof may contain asbestos, which needs a licensed removalist for anything over 10 square metres.