A Witham roofing company, based in town
Authentic Building & Roofing Ltd is run by Lee Draper from 75a Church Street in Witham. Most of our Witham jobs are a few minutes' drive away, which makes it easy to pop round for a free site visit, come back to check a repair after heavy rain, or fit a job around your week.
If you have been searching for roofers in Witham and want someone local who answers the phone, call 07947 758052, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.
Witham's houses and what their roofs need
Witham has a wider mix of homes than people expect. Around the town centre and its older streets, you find Victorian and Edwardian terraces with slate or clay tiles, lead valleys and shared party walls. These roofs often need ridge rebedding, slipped slates refixed and tired leadwork renewed.
From the 1960s and 70s, Witham grew quickly as a London overspill town, and large estates were built with concrete interlocking tiles, shallow pitches and lots of attached garages with felt roofs. Many of those garage and porch roofs are now well past their best. Newer estates on the edges of town have their own patterns: dry-fix ridges, plastic verges and box gutters that collect leaves.
Typical roofing jobs in Witham
- Replacing felt flat roofs on extensions and garages with GRP or EPDM, see flat roofing
- Refixing slipped tiles and slates after a windy spell, see roof repairs
- Re-roofing older terraces and estate houses whose tiles and underlay have worn out, see new roofs
- Fixing leaking joints, sagging runs and blocked downpipes, see gutter repairs
- Lead flashing around chimneys, walls and roof windows
Villages around Witham
We work in the villages around town as often as in Witham itself, including Rivenhall, Silver End, Hatfield Peverel, Great Totham, Wickham Bishops and Terling. Village homes are more likely to be older cottages, farm conversions or individual houses with their own quirks, and Lee takes the time to look at those details before quoting.
Nearby towns we cover
Witham sits between Chelmsford and Colchester on the A12, with Braintree just to the north. If you are in one of those towns, see our pages for a roofer in Braintree, a roofer in Chelmsford and a roofer in Colchester.
What happens when you get in touch
Tell us what you have noticed, whether that is a damp patch, a tile in the garden or a flat roof that ponds. Lee will arrange a visit, look at the whole roof rather than just the problem spot, and send you a written quote. There is no charge for the visit and no obligation to go ahead. You can also request a visit online.
Witham weather and roofs
Witham is fairly sheltered compared with the coast, but the open farmland around the town still lets strong winds through. After a stormy night, the calls we get are usually about lifted ridge tiles, slipped tiles on exposed gable ends and felt torn from garage edges. Heavy autumn leaf fall from mature trees in the older parts of town blocks gutters and valleys, and shaded slopes on estate houses gather moss quickly.
None of this needs an emergency callout, but it is worth dealing with before winter. A quick check after bad weather, and gutters cleared once the leaves have dropped, keeps most Witham roofs out of trouble.
Planning roof work on a Witham street
Many streets in the older parts of town are narrow, with cars parked on both sides, while estate roads often have shared drives and tight corners. Lee plans scaffold, skips and deliveries around that, and lets you know what to tell the neighbours. On terraces, he will talk through party wall junctions and shared chimney stacks so the work does not cause problems next door.