Roofers Dublin:
jobs we have filmed.
Six real Dublin jobs, what was wrong, what was done and when. Short films are included for each.
These are jobs by Recommended Roofing in Dublin, set down the way the records have them. Where a record does not say something, we have left it out, so you will not find prices or customers' names here.
For what customers said, see roofers Dublin reviews. For what a typical job costs, see roofing prices in Dublin.
Dún Laoghaire: a flat roof driving water into the walls
A flat roof that was leaking badly, and the water was not staying on the roof. It was running into the walls and ruining the plasterwork inside the house.
The leak was put right and the roof dealt with. With a flat roof, the damage shows indoors long before anyone looks up at the roof itself.
Blanchardstown: a slate roof faulty from new
The slates, battens and felt were all poor, and the fault went back to the original build, not to age or weather. With nothing sound underneath, a patch would have had nothing to hold on to.
Everything came off and the roof was slated afresh, battens and felt as well. Once the layers beneath the slates have failed right across a roof, repair after repair adds up to more than one proper job.
Tyrrellstown: a leaking slate roof, filmed at the strip
A slate roof that was leaking and had been for a long time. The strip was filmed as it began, so what lay underneath was recorded and not just described afterwards.
The roof was stripped and replaced with new slate. Footage taken at the strip is the plain way to show a customer what was under their roof, as once the job is done the evidence is gone.
Blackrock: a felt roof leaking into the rooms below
Here the felt roof had failed and water had already reached the rooms beneath it. That made two jobs in one: stop the water, then deal with what it had reached.
The felt roof was replaced and the inside was repaired where the leak had come through. Water spreads, so by the time a mark shows on a ceiling the roof has usually been letting it in for a while.
South Dublin: a felt flat roof at the end of its life
A felt flat roof, filmed before any work began. Blistered, with lifted sections and seams opening, it showed faults you cannot see from the garden.
Its condition was recorded at the survey and the roof was then replaced. Flat roofs wear out from above and out of sight, so if nobody has climbed up to yours, nobody knows what state it is in.
An occupied HSE building in Dublin: a serious leak
A serious leak at a working Health Service Executive facility, a building in daily use that could not shut while the roof was looked at. The film shows that missing lead flashing had let water into the walls.
The cause was found and explained on site. On a public building, the right diagnosis beats a quick one, since sealing the wrong spot means a second visit.
Proof from the big names
A logo on its own proves little, so here is the work. These are roles Recommended Roofing already publishes on its own site, shown with the photographs and film from the jobs.
Branch building maintenance and re-roofingBank of Ireland
Chosen only after pre-qualification on insurance, safety systems and financial standing. A bank checks all three before it lets anyone onto a branch roof.
The photographs show the work in progress: a branch building fully scaffolded for roof repairs, the slate edge of a bank roof being put right, and the gutters of a second branch, in Sligo, being restored. Sligo is outside Dublin; it is here because a bank's branches are the best reference a roofer can have.
The work itself
Photographs from Recommended Roofing's own jobs. Each caption says only what the picture shows.
A roofer on the slope of a house beside a scissor lift, with safety tape set out below
A roofer in hi-vis beside a chimney, the slope stripped back to membrane and battens
A roofer on a mobile access platform, working at height
A finished dark slate roof with a chimney at each end
A period house with its roof edge and fascia finished
Two roofers fitting a roof window into a slate roof
A flat roof with a waterproof coating run up to a chimney upstand
Roof timbers seen from inside an attic, where a survey starts
Check it yourself
You should not have to take our word. These are the places to test what this page says.
- See the company's entry in the National Guild of Master Craftsmen directory.
- Read all eight roofers Dublin reviews in full, with names as the reviewers gave them.
- Watch the six Dublin jobs on film and read what was wrong and what was done.
- Read the guarantee in plain words before you decide.
- Ask any roofer, us included, for the questions worth asking and compare the answers.
What these jobs have in common.
Each one started with someone looking properly at the roof, and each came with a written price. If you have a similar problem, the closest services are roof replacement, flat roofs, commercial roofing and roof repairs. To compare firms, see what to expect from a roofing company in Dublin.
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