National roof leak and re-roofing service

Leaky Roof Repairs

Roof replacement and roof repair contractor

When the rain gets in, we get to work.

A leaking roof does not wait for a convenient time. South Africa throws everything at a roof: Cape winter fronts, the south-easter, Highveld hail, coastal salt and Durban downpours. Every one of them finds the same small opening. Report the leak, tell us how urgent it is, and we route it to a local repair or re-roof team.

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Which roof problem sounds like yours?

Is water coming through your ceiling?

A roof leak damages ceilings, insulation, walls and flooring. The longer it runs, the more of the house it takes with it.

Have you noticed damp patches or water stains?

Brown rings, bubbling paint and damp patches are early warnings that water is getting in somewhere above.

Did the last storm damage your roof?

Hail, wind and heavy rain crack tiles, lift sheets, tear flashings and open up the weak points in a roof.

Is your roof simply at the end of its life?

If patch after patch keeps failing, the covering itself is finished. We arrange full re-roofing as well as repairs.

A national roof leak service, routed to local repair teams

Leaky Roof Repair is a South African roof leak and roof repair service. You report the problem, we assess how urgent it is, and the work is routed to a local roofing team in your city.

Roofs fail differently depending on where you live. Cape Town takes wind-driven winter rain off the Atlantic. Durban and the KwaZulu-Natal coast deal with torrential summer downpours and salt-laden air that eats metal sheeting and fixings. Johannesburg, Pretoria and the Free State get Highveld thunderstorms and hail that crack tiles and strip ridge mortar. East London and Gqeberha live with coastal wind and corrosion that never takes a season off.

That is why the repair advice differs from city to city, and why we keep a page for each market we cover rather than pretending one roof problem fits the whole country.

A well-kept South African family home with a sound dark tiled roof in late afternoon light. — **Every market asks something different of a roof.** Even tile lines, sound ridge work and gutters that carry the rain away are what keep the water on the outside of a house.

Repairs when they will hold, full re-roofing when they will not

A great deal of what we are called out for is a leak that can be repaired: a cracked tile, a failed flashing, a rusted fixing, waterproofing that has reached the end of its life. Those are straightforward jobs and we would rather do them than sell you a roof.

But there is a point where patching a roof is money spent on a losing argument. When the sheeting is rusted through, the tiles are porous and shedding their surface, the battens have rotted, or the same area has been repaired three times in two years, the covering itself is finished.

At that point we arrange the whole job rather than another patch: strip and dispose of the old covering, replace damaged timber, battens and underlay, and install the new roof in tile, slate, IBR or corrugated sheeting, with new flashings and gutters where they are needed. If you are not sure which side of that line your roof is on, that is exactly what the assessment is for.

Tile and concrete tile re-roofing
Slate roof repair and replacement
IBR and corrugated sheeting re-roofing
Flat and low-pitch roof replacement
Timber, batten and underlay replacement
Asbestos-cement sheeting replacement
Gutter, fascia and downpipe replacement

New charcoal grey corrugated steel roof sheeting, freshly fixed with clean overlapping laps and water beading on the surface. — **New sheeting, fixed properly.** Clean overlapping laps and an even line of fixings are what the last stage of a re-roof should look like.

How it works

Four steps, in this order, every time.

You report the leak. Give us the city, the suburb and a short description of what you can see. Photos help.
We assess urgency on a scale of 1 to 10. Genuine emergencies rated 7 to 10 go into the emergency queue ahead of everything else.
The roof is inspected to find where water is actually entering, which is often not where the stain appears inside the house.
You get a clear explanation of the cause and what needs to be done, whether a repair, waterproofing or a full re-roof, and a local contractor carries out the work.

Roof repair and re-roofing services

Leak repair is the call we get most often. Full re-roofing is what we do when a roof has run out of life. Both are covered.

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Roof Leak Detection

Finding where the water actually enters, which is rarely directly above the stain on the ceiling.

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Emergency Roof Repairs

Active leaks, water pouring into a room, and storm damage that cannot wait for a normal booking.

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Roof Replacement & Re-roofing

Full strip and re-roof in tile, slate, IBR or corrugated sheeting, including battens, underlay and gutters.

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Waterproofing

Torch-on and liquid rubber systems for flat roofs, parapets, balconies and slabs, plus failed waterproofing repair.

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Tile Roof Repairs

Cracked, slipped and missing tiles, ridge caps, and the mortar that holds a tiled roof together.

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Metal Roof Repairs

IBR and corrugated leaks, rusted sheets, failed fixings, lifted laps and problem joins.

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Storm & Hail Damage

Wind, hail and rain damage assessed and repaired, from lifted sheets to shattered tiles.

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Gutters & Downpipes

Blocked, overflowing and leaking gutters, including longspan gutters and box gutters.

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Flashing & Valley Repairs

Chimney, wall and valley flashing that has lifted, rusted or lost its seal.

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Ceiling Water Damage

Ceiling stains, damp patches and water coming through, traced back to the roof above.

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Roof Maintenance & Inspections

A condition check before the storm season, so next season’s leak is dealt with now.

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Roofers & Roof Installers

New roof installation and full re-roofing, booked for the dry months rather than the middle of the rain.

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Tile Roofers

Tiled and slate roof work: cracked and slipped tiles, ridge joints, re-tiling and full tile roof replacement.

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Metal Roofers

IBR, corrugated and steel roofs: leaking fixings and laps, rusted sheeting, re-sheeting and replacement.

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Roof Contractors

What a roofing contractor is contracted to do, what a written scope should say, and why quotes differ.

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How urgent is your roof problem?

Choose the rating that best describes the problem. Ratings of 7 to 10 go into the emergency queue, and those jobs are attended before anything in the standard queue. If you want your emergency seen sooner than the emergencies ahead of it, Priority Booking can move it up for a fee. Jobs rated 1 to 6 stay in the standard queue and have no priority fee.

10My roof has blown off and I can see the moon from my Lazy Boy in the lounge.

9Water is pouring into the house and causing active damage.

8Several rooms are leaking and buckets are everywhere.

7Water is coming through the ceiling whenever it rains.

6The leak is getting noticeably worse.

5New water stains are appearing.

4Damp patches are spreading.

3I have one small damp patch.

2Something does not look right.

1I have noticed a possible early warning sign.

Selected urgency rating: 7/10. Emergency queue

Priority Booking

Need your emergency seen sooner?

Your report goes into the emergency queue and is attended before anything in the standard queue. Add Priority Booking to move it ahead of emergency reports that have not booked it. The fee is from R1,000, it is a scheduling and dispatch fee paid to Leaky Roof Repair and separate from the repair quotation, and we only charge it once we confirm that a faster slot is available.

Add Priority Booking, from R1,000

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