Roofers in Canterbury

Roofs inside the city walls come with paperwork as well as scaffolding. Canterbury's historic core is a conservation area alongside a World Heritage Site, and much of the older stock is covered in Kent peg tile or natural slate, both of which planning guidance expects to see retained rather than replaced with a modern substitute. Peg tiles hang on wooden pegs rather than being nailed to battens, so re-tiling one of these roofs is a different job from re-tiling an interlocking one, and matching handmade tile for colour and camber affects how the finished work reads from the street. Beyond the centre the picture changes to Victorian terraces, interwar semis and modern estates under concrete tile, where none of that applies. Establishing which of the two Canterburys a property sits in is the first step, because it decides both the material and whether consent is needed before anything is stripped.