Croydon
The home borough carries the widest mix on this list, from bay-window terraces north of the town to garages and dormers up on the Downs, whole estates at New Addington and the big sheds out along the Purley Way.
Flat roofing in CroydonCoverage
Flat Roofing Across South London and Greater London
Twelve boroughs, each with a page of its own. What follows is the short version: what the building stock throws up in each place, and where to read the rest of it.
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Coverage
Areas we cover
Borough boundaries from Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey data, Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Simplified for display.
Borough by borough
Where we work, and what the roofs are like there
Building stock decides the job long before anybody chooses a system. A borough of interwar semis produces garage roofs on their first covering; a borough of Victorian terraces produces wall junctions that let go; a borough of post-war blocks produces programmes. Most of these have some of each.
Bromley
The largest borough on the map by ground covered, and felt on an Orpington garage is a different afternoon from a shopfront roof at Penge.
Flat roofing in BromleySutton
Interwar building at its most repetitive: street after street of the same porch, the same garage and the same weary covering, with the St Helier kitchen additions along the northern edge.
Flat roofing in SuttonMerton
Three characters share one borough, the conservation streets at Wimbledon, the interwar garages of Morden and Raynes Park, and the estate blocks facing Croydon at Mitcham.
Flat roofing in Merton Wimbledon: the hill and the townSW19: the Edwardian grid and the interwar streetsWandsworth
Flat gutters hidden behind the front parapet wall are the local signature, running from the Battersea grid out to Earlsfield, with Putney mansion blocks and the newest decks upriver layered on top.
Flat roofing in Wandsworth SW18: Wandsworth Town, Earlsfield & SouthfieldsBattersea: the Junction grids and the Power StationBalham: side returns and the High RoadLambeth
One borough changes character along a single road, from additions and dormers at the Streatham end, through estate roofs at Brixton, to offices and river-facing decks by Waterloo.
Flat roofing in Lambeth Clapham: converted terraces by the commonsSW8: Nine Elms, Vauxhall & StockwellSouthwark
Wharf conversions and office roofs occupy the river end, terraces with rear additions fill Peckham and Camberwell, and the ground rises to something suburban again at the Crystal Palace edge.
Flat roofing in Southwark SE1: Borough, Bankside & London BridgeDulwich: dormers, outbuildings and consentLewisham
Ridge down to creek: flat gutters behind parapet walls at Brockley and Forest Hill, estate blocks around Catford, and podium decks at the rebuilt town centre.
Flat roofing in Lewisham Blackheath: Georgian parapets and post-war estatesGreenwich
Two boroughs in one, with Eltham semis whose garages have never been re-covered since the day they went up, and a riverside belt out to the Royal Arsenal that wants programmes rather than call-outs.
Flat roofing in GreenwichKingston upon Thames
Suburban and commercial sit side by side, with New Malden and Chessington garages a few minutes from one of the larger shopping centres in outer London and everything bolted to its roof.
Flat roofing in Kingston upon ThamesRichmond upon Thames
Work here has to be discreet: conservation streets stand on both banks, long parapet runs wrap the riverside blocks, and Whitton and Hampton keep their garages behind them.
Flat roofing in Richmond upon ThamesBexley
West to east the work changes completely, from Sidcup and Welling garages to trade estates and big sheds along the Erith riverside.
Flat roofing in BexleyQuestions
Frequently asked questions
Do you work outside the boroughs on this map?
The map is the answer rather than a starting point for negotiation. These twelve are South London and the south bank, they are what can be reached and covered properly from Croydon, and a page for somewhere we do not intend to work would be a promise nobody meant. If you are just over a boundary from one of them, ask: a street on the edge of the map is one thing, and another side of London is quite another.
Does being further out cost more?
The price comes from the roof, not the postcode. How big it is, how high, what it takes to get onto it, how much detailing runs round its edges and what turns up on the day are what move a figure, and those differ more between two roofs in one street than between two boroughs. Nothing is costed until somebody has stood on it, which is why no rate appears anywhere on this site.
Does distance change how a visit is arranged?
It changes the diary, not the standard. Close to base a visit slots in more easily; further out it is planned into a run and you get a date agreed with you rather than a window we picked. Water actively coming into a building moves up that diary wherever it is. What does not change is who turns up or how the work is recorded.
Some boroughs have postcode pages. Do those areas get something different?
No. A postcode page exists because a district has building stock worth describing at closer range than a whole borough allows, not because it sits in a different tier. Same crews, same survey, same written reporting. Where a borough has no postcode page yet it simply means nobody has written the closer view of it, and its own page still covers the ground.
Somewhere on that map?
Give us the postcode and say what the roof is doing. The borough decides how we plan the visit, not whether we come.
We need a little more before we can send that: a name, the postcode of the roof, what is happening with it, and either a phone number or an email address.
Sorry, that did not send. What you wrote is still here, so press send again when you have a signal. If it will not go, ring 07593 196505 or email office@pluvian.uk.
That has come through a few times already. If the first one did not arrive, ring us instead or email office@pluvian.uk and we will pick it up from there.
Coming out and pricing the work is free; a written condition survey carries a fee, agreed before the visit and taken off the price of the work if you go ahead.