SW19
Flat Roof Repairs in SW19: Wimbledon Park, Merton Park & the Chase
Below and east of the hill, SW19 turns into something quite different: Edwardian grids, garden-suburb streets and interwar semis. The flat roofs are small and numerous rather than large and communal, which is bay tops, porch canopies, back additions and garages. None of them gets a figure until somebody has been up to it.
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The district
What SW19 actually covers
East of the hill the postcode runs through the Wimbledon Park grid and its Edwardian terraces, then into Merton Park’s laid-out avenues and the tighter streets of South Wimbledon, before thinning into the interwar semis around Wimbledon Chase. The village and the town centre sit at the other end of the same code, and have a page of their own.
Local stock
The roofs of SW19
- The Wimbledon Park grid. Edwardian terraces delivered bay tops, porch canopies and rear additions in quantity, so a single street can hold a hundred small flat areas turned up against brickwork. They fail one detail at a time, which makes them a diagnosis job rather than a re-covering job.
- Merton Park and South Wimbledon. Planned avenues at one end and closer-packed terraces at the other, both extended repeatedly at the back over the last few decades. Where several coverings have been laid over one another, the sensible question is what is underneath them, and that is a refurbishment decision taken on evidence.
- Interwar streets towards the Chase. Semi-detached houses came with a garage beside them and, later, a flat-roofed extension behind them. The garage is often a single-skin brick box with timber joists bearing on the house's flank wall and boards on top, so its covering is only as good as the turn-up against that wall and the timber fascia at the front. What a garage roof like that needs is settled by opening a corner on the day, not by guessing from the drive.
The wider area
The wide shot: Merton
Widen the frame to Morden and Mitcham and you get flat roofing in Merton. Head the other way up the hill and the housing changes character completely, into large houses and mansion blocks: flat roofing in Wimbledon.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Do you cover all of SW19?
Yes, the whole code. This page is about its eastern and southern half: the Wimbledon Park streets, Merton Park, South Wimbledon and the roads running out to the Chase. For the village on the hill and the blocks around the Broadway, the page you want is flat roofing in Wimbledon. Where SW19 runs over a borough line, the line makes no difference to us.
What tends to fail on an Edwardian bay and porch roof?
The small flat tops, and usually at their back edge. A bay roof or a porch canopy is a modest area of covering turned up against the front wall, and after a hundred years the turn-up has hardened, cracked or been buried under successive coats of something. Water then runs behind it into the brickwork rather than off the front, which is why the damp shows up inside a bay window rather than above it.
How soon can you get to a roof in SW19?
On a booked date, fixed the first time you ring or write. A roof letting water into a bay window or a back bedroom is moved up the diary; the rest is planned in, and the date given is the one kept.
A flat roof problem in SW19?
Bay top, porch canopy or a garage that has given up: tell us the street.
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.
Please check the postcode of the roof: it should have letters and numbers in it.
Please take the link out of your message - photos can be attached with this form.
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, and every quotation for an existing roof comes with photographs of it. A written condition survey carries a fee, agreed before the visit and taken off the price of the work if you go ahead.