Wandsworth
Flat Roof Repairs & Refurbishment in Wandsworth
The borough runs from Putney and the commons down through Tooting to the river, and its flat roofing runs with it: hidden butterfly valleys behind Victorian parapets, mansion block parapets, terrace additions, estate roofs and the new towers upriver. All of it is ours to work, on a day agreed before we set out.
Or call us on 07593 196505
Local stock
Wandsworth's roofs, and what they need
Wandsworth packs London's whole housing history into one borough, and most of it hides more flat roofing than its streets let on:
- Dense Victorian terraces across Battersea, Clapham Junction and the SW11 grid, carrying flat-roofed back extensions and, behind many front parapets, concealed butterfly roofs draining to central valley gutters. Those hidden valleys and parapet gutters fail like flat roofs and take the same leak repair, often with liquid-applied waterproofing where access is tight.
- Earlsfield and Southfields terraces in SW18 and the streets around Tooting and Balham: the same back-addition pattern, and the wall junction leaking before anything else does.
- Mansion blocks around Putney and along the commons, carrying parapet gutters, out-of-sight flat areas and coverings decades old, none of it worth pricing before a condition survey has settled whether patching or refurbishment is the answer.
- The Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station quarter: new residential blocks, roof terraces and podium decks in quantity, where what earns its keep is a managed block, a maintenance schedule and inspections kept on record.
- Riverside and town-centre commercial around Wandsworth town and the Thames frontage, where access, occupiers and the equipment standing on the roof decide how a commercial job is planned.
Services
Every service, across Wandsworth
Terrace streets across Battersea, Balham and Earlsfield send us hidden valley and parapet leaks, often after a decorator has been blamed for them. Mansion blocks and estates send us reporting and planned programmes. Nine Elms sends us new build-ups already needing maintenance. All three get the same written treatment.
Coverage
Three closer looks inside Wandsworth
Three places inside the borough are described at closer range: flat roofing in SW18 (Wandsworth Town, Earlsfield and Southfields), flat roofing in Battersea and Clapham Junction (SW11) and flat roofing in Balham, where the side return infill is the roof that leaks.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Are you based in Wandsworth?
No. There is no Wandsworth office behind this page, and pretending otherwise would be the wrong start. The range is South London, plus the Greater London boroughs beyond it. Each job is put in the diary for a specific day, and neither the crew nor the reporting changes with the postcode.
Which parts of Wandsworth do you cover?
All of the borough: Battersea and Clapham Junction, Nine Elms, Wandsworth town, Earlsfield and Southfields, Putney, Tooting and Balham. Every part of it is booked, surveyed and documented in exactly the same way.
What is the lead time on a Wandsworth visit?
By appointment, with the day fixed at the point of asking. A roof letting water in gets moved up; a roof that needs surveying gets planned in. Neither gets an invented response time.
Is a butterfly roof behind a parapet still flat roofing?
The valley is, and that is where the trouble sits. Many Victorian terraces in Battersea, Earlsfield and Tooting hide a butterfly roof behind the front parapet: two slopes draining to a central gutter you cannot see from the street. A valley or parapet gutter that has blocked or split behaves precisely like a failed flat roof and takes the same materials to put right. The slated or tiled slopes either side of it are a pitched trade, so if yours need attention too, we will say which half is ours.
Do you work on blocks in Nine Elms and Battersea?
Yes. The new residential quarter around Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station is dense with flat-roofed blocks, terraces and podium decks, and what counts there is a managed block on a settled schedule, not one repair at a time. What managing agents can expect from us on a building in use is written up on the commercial roofing page.
A flat roof problem in Wandsworth?
A butterfly valley behind a Battersea parapet, a podium deck in Nine Elms: which one, and what has it done?
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.