Roofer in Holmewood

We're based in North Wingfield, around two miles from Holmewood. Close enough to get up and look quickly, and come back easily if anything needs another visit.

Holmewood is different from most villages round here. It didn't grow slowly. It was built as housing for the Williamthorpe Colliery Company, from 1905, and the colliery worked until 1970, when deep-seam mining became too expensive.

The colliery site is now an industrial estate, and Williamthorpe Ponds and Holmewood Woodlands have taken over much of the old pit land. The Five Pits Trail loops round the village along the old railway.

For roofs, the important part is how the village was built. When one company builds the housing for a whole workforce, it builds the same houses, with the same roofs, at the same time. They then wear out at the same time too.

If two or three of your neighbours have had ridge or roof work done recently, it's very likely yours is heading the same way.

Whole streets reaching the same point. Roofs of the same age and build fail in the same order: ridge mortar first, then slipped tiles, then the battens and fixings underneath.

Ridges and verges. The most common job. Cracked mortar along the ridge, pieces of it on the path, verge mortar falling out at the gable ends. Repointing works where the tiles are firm. Where they move, re-bedding or a dry ridge and dry verge system is the longer-lasting fix.

Chimney stacks. Older stacks with perished pointing and failed flashings let water in where the chimney meets the roof. It often shows up as a damp patch on the chimney breast or a stain on the bedroom ceiling.

Roofline. Rotten timber fascias and sagging gutters, especially on houses where the roofline has never been replaced.

Ladders out, up on the roof, photos of what we find. A written price before we start, and the job finished before we move on. If it's a repair, we won't sell you a roof.

If you're trying to budget for a repair or a new roof, we've written a full roof cost guide for Chesterfield and north Derbyshire — real 2026 prices for repairs, re-roofs, flat roofs, chimneys and more.