Garage roofs in Manchester
Manchester has two very different garage stocks. In the inner suburbs such as Levenshulme, Longsight, Gorton and Moston, rows of older garages sit in back lanes behind red-brick Victorian terraces, often with grey corrugated roofing that has been up for fifty years or more.
Further out, 1930s semis in Chorlton, Didsbury, Burnage and Withington have driveway garages, and the garden-city estates of Wythenshawe have a lot of 1950s and 1960s garages built when cement sheeting was the cheap default.
Places we cover in Manchester
Postcodes: M1 to M46.
What is typical here
In a lane of attached garages, the roof is often a single run of sheets over several units with a shared gutter, so the first job is working out whose section is whose and whether the neighbours want to coordinate.
Damp, moss and winter frost are hard on old cement sheets. A cracked or crumbling Manchester garage roof is common, and it is a good reason to have it looked at before the next storm.
Typical locally: Typical in back lanes around Levenshulme, Gorton and Moston.
Services in Manchester
- Removal and new roof: The old asbestos cement roof comes off and a new roof goes on, as one job.
- Removal only: Safe removal and disposal of an asbestos cement garage roof, without a new roof.
- New garage roof: A new steel, fibre, rubber or flat roof once the asbestos has gone.
- Solar on the new roof: Put solar panels on the new garage roof and a battery in the garage.
- Is it asbestos? Testing: A small sample settles whether a roof contains asbestos.
Manchester questions
I have a garage in a lane behind my terrace in Manchester. Can the roof still be replaced?
Usually yes. Access along the lane, scaffold space and waste collection are the practical points, so photos of the lane and the roof help a contractor plan the job.
Which Manchester postcodes do you cover?
The whole of the city, from M1 to M46, including Wythenshawe, Chorlton, Didsbury, Gorton, Moston and Blackley.