Roof restoration and repairs in Toorak Gardens

Roofs on Toorak Gardens homes

Toorak Gardens is one of Adelaide's prestige suburbs, with grand older homes and high-end rebuilds on leafy streets.

Toorak Gardens is about 3 km east of the CBD, in the City of Burnside. Burnside is established and leafy, with homes ranging from 1920s villas and bungalows to post-war houses on generous blocks, plus large modern rebuilds in suburbs like Tusmore, Toorak Gardens and Leabrook. Roofs here range from terracotta and slate on older homes to concrete tiles and Colorbond. Big trees mean gutters and valleys fill with leaves, and the foothills suburbs such as Mount Osmond, Stonyfell and Skye add steep blocks to the mix.

Popular roofing jobs in Toorak Gardens

• Restoring and repointing terracotta roofs on character homes
• Clearing leaf-filled valleys and gutters and fitting gutter guard
• Replacing tired concrete tile roofs with Colorbond
• Repairing the join where an older roof meets a rear extension

What Toorak Gardens roofs have to cope with

Many older homes in Toorak Gardens 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

Most roof repairs, restorations and like-for-like re-roofs in Toorak Gardens don't need council approval. Parts of the City of Burnside 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. 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. 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. And if you have solar panels, check the quote covers taking them off and putting them back.