Roof restoration and repairs in Gawler South

Roofs on Gawler South homes

Gawler South is about 38 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 Gawler 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
• Repairing the join where an older roof meets a rear extension

What Gawler South roofs have to cope with

Many older homes in Gawler South have corrugated iron roofs, front verandahs and box gutters, or terracotta tiles on interwar bungalows. Iron rusts first at the laps and fixings, box gutters block and overflow, and the join between the original roof and a rear extension is a common leak point. In historic areas, like-for-like iron in a traditional profile is usually the simplest path.

Before you book

Check three things before you book roof work in Gawler 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.