Cambourne is one of Cambridgeshire's newest large settlements, and while the housing stock is modern, lead flashings on the town's many dormers, bay window roofs, and chimney-effect stacks can fail sooner than expected when they leave the factory underweight or poorly installed.
The houses across Great Cambourne, Lower Cambourne, and Upper Cambourne were built from the late 1990s onwards, predominantly by volume housebuilders whose lead work was sometimes fitted to the minimum specification rather than to best practice. Dormer flashings, bay aprons, and the decorative chimney stacks common on the larger detached houses are the most frequent problem areas — lead lapped too thinly, clips missing, or no allowance for thermal movement causing the metal to crack within 15 to 20 years of installation.
A new-build roof is no guarantee that lead work has been done correctly. We survey and replace substandard lead on Cambourne properties regularly, cutting and dressing to the correct Code weight and fixing to current LODA guidance so the repair is genuinely long-lasting rather than just cosmetically tidy.
No obligation · We usually respond within 2 hours
Storm damage, active leak, damaged ridge — we aim to be on-site within 24 hours.
