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St Helens Landlord Roof Survey
Roof condition reports for landlords, agents and blocks of flats across St Helens, with drones and thermal imaging where they help. Get in touch for a price.
- Loose ridge or hip tiles
- Ceiling stains reported by tenants
- Gutters overflowing onto walls
Practical tips
There is plenty you can do without going near the roof. What helps most:
- Tell tenants when we’re coming
- Don’t wait for a leak to survey the roof
- Get legal advice on lease responsibilities
- Put urgent roof work at the top of the list
The report can feed straight into a maintenance plan. You can start with the urgent items and plan the rest over time.
Keep gutters and outlets clear and include any valley or parapet gutters. Many leaks into top flats start with a blocked gutter.
About our landlord roof survey in St Helens
We check the same things on a let roof as on any other: coverings, ridges, hips, valleys, flashings, chimneys, gutters and the roof space. Flat roofs on blocks, extensions and garages are included where they’re part of the brief. Chimney stacks, parapets and party-wall upstands are checked as far as they can safely be seen and the loft where access is safe. We are often asked to look into damaged party-wall upstands or parapets and standing water on a flat roof, on blocks of flats, rented houses and flat roofs on blocks.
In a village or hamlet like St Helens, older cottages and farmhouses frequently sit alongside barns, outbuildings and a few newer houses. Older roofs may be clay tile, slate, stone or thatch, often with chimneys that have stood a long time. Each needs checking in its own way, and thatch is a specialist material we report on as far as it can be seen. On older roofs, it’s typically the chimneys and lead flashings that need work first.
The Standard Survey adds moisture detection, a structural check and a follow-up consultation. The Premium Survey goes further, with thermal imaging, drone inspection where it applies, structural analysis and an in-person consultation.
- Where
- St Helens (PO33)
- Region
- Isle of Wight
- Cost
- From £150 inc. VAT
- Your report
- A written report with photos, by email
- When we survey
- Monday to Sunday, daytime
- Insurance
- PI and public liability insurance
- Phone
- 07833 053749
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Different roofs, different checks
Shared chimney stacks
Chimney stacks are often shared between houses or flats. We check pots, flaunching, pointing and flashings as far as can be seen.
Gutters and downpipes
Hidden gutters on larger buildings can send water indoors. They’re an important part of the survey.
What this survey can’t tell you
It helps to know what a survey will not do before booking:
- Areas behind locked flats or blocked hatches
- Who pays under the lease (that’s a legal question)
- Walls, floors and services beyond the roof
If in doubt, phone 07833 053749 or use the contact form and we will suggest the right survey. What a survey covers and doesn’t.
Roofs we survey in St Helens
- Rented houses
- Flat roofs on blocks
- Shared roofs
- Gutters and downpipes
- Blocks of flats
- Converted houses
Questions from St Helens
I let a flat near Brading station. Can you check the roof?
Yes, landlords and letting agents book with us as well as owners. Just phone 07833 053749 or drop us an email and let us know about the building.
Do roofs near the sea, like those around St Helens, take more of a battering?
It can do. Within about 2 miles of the sea, as St Helens is, metal fixings wear faster and gales find any loose ridge or slate.
Do you need to get into the loft?
Typically, if there is one and it can be reached safely. From inside, the underside of the roof frequently shows damp, staining or daylight that cannot be seen from outside.
Does the report help with maintenance planning?
Yes, that is one of the main reasons clients book. A repeat survey later shows how the roof has changed, which suits a rolling plan.
Do you survey roofs on blocks of flats?
Yes, once access has been agreed. The roof of a block or converted house is frequently shared, so we need permission from the building owner or managing agent. We can only inspect what we’re given access to.
Is this an asbestos survey?
No. We do not sample or test for asbestos. Where a material might contain it, like old cement sheets on a building from before 2000, the report flags it.
Do you carry professional indemnity insurance?
Our cover is professional indemnity plus public liability, and we can provide details if a managing agent needs them.
Also in St Helens
Should I look at the roof myself first?
Your own check is a good start, but it isn’t a survey. From ground level, valleys, flashings and the backs of chimneys are often out of sight, and those are details a survey looks at closely.
After strong wind, take a look from the pavement or garden: pieces of tile or slate on the ground, a gap in the ridge or a lifted flashing are all worth noting. Don’t go up yourself.
What affects the price in St Helens
Our packages start from £150, including VAT. The price for your roof depends on:
- How complicated the roof is, with its valleys, chimneys and parapets
- Height and safe access
- The use of thermal imaging or a drone
- Whether it is a home or a commercial building
Every price we give includes VAT, and the report is not charged as an extra. Landlord roof survey starts from £150, including VAT. Size, height and access decide where your roof falls.
Booking your survey
Getting the details right at the start saves time. Please include:
- Where any leaks, stains or damp patches show inside
- The property’s address and postcode
- What kind of property and roof it is
- Dates you are working to, such as exchange
Most bookings start with a short call: call 07833 053749 or drop us an email and we’ll ask a few questions about the roof. The price is agreed before a date is set.
How the survey works
Expect us to ask a few questions before we start, like when any problem began and what work has been done before. Then the inspection itself takes between one and two hours for a house, and longer for a block or a building with several roofs. Somewhere like St Helens needs a little journey planning: let us know about lanes, gates and parking. The roof is looked at from ground level, from windows, from the loft where there’s safe access and from the roof where it is safe.
- We start with what you know about the building and its history.
- We let you know which flats and hatches we need to reach.
- The roofs are inspected from the ground, vantage points, the roof space and the roof where safe.
- The report records areas we couldn’t access.
- Findings and recommendations are set out with photographs.
Preparing for the visit
- Find any records of previous roof work
- Leave a clear route to the loft
- Note where any stains or damp appear
Arrange a survey
Photos help, if you have them. Pictures from the ground or a window are fine. To send them or to book, ring 07833 053749 or use the contact form.
Related advice
Landlord roof surveys in St Helens: local notes
The coast is about 2 miles or less from St Helens, and places near the sea get more salt in the air and more wind than inland. Metal fixings and flashings corrode faster in salt air, while gales work at loose ridges, slates and tiles, and driving rain gets into whatever gap is left. A number of the island’s villages keep thatched roofs on older buildings, and the whole island is open to sea air and wind. Whatever the covering, it’s often the fixings, flashings, valleys and gutters that give out first.
For site and facilities teams at buildings like St Helens Primary School, a written record of a large roof helps plan work for the holidays rather than in term time. If you live in an older home near St Catherine-by-the-Green, its roof may have old fixings, lead flashings and chimneys that need a closer look. Yaverland Manor, about 2.1 miles south-west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area around St Helens. On a period home nearby, the survey separates sound original work from tired later repairs.
St Helens is about 3 miles south-east of Ryde, in the Isle of Wight. In St Helens, as across the Isle of Wight, every roof gets the same careful survey. St Helens is one of the places in the Isle of Wight we cover. Our Portsmouth page covers surveys nearby.
All of PO33 is covered for landlord roof surveys. Whether your property is on Station Road, Upper Green Road and Old Chapel Lane or anywhere close by, we can survey it. Nearby, we also carry out landlord roof surveys in Gaskins (1 mile south-west), Brading (2 miles south-west), Yarbridge (2 miles south-west), Morton (2 miles south-west) and Yaverland (3 miles south-west). Further out, we also cover Newport (8 miles west), Ryde (3 miles north-west), Cowes (9 miles north-west), Sandown (4 miles south-west), Shanklin (5 miles south-west) and Ventnor (8 miles south-west). For harder-to-reach addresses, the survey takes a little more planning.
Around St Helens
We work in homes and buildings around The Vine Inn and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Brading station, roughly 1.8 miles south-west of the centre. A little further out are Cothey Bottom Heritage Centre (1.5 miles north-west) and Sandown Castle (3.2 miles south-west). For a walk, there is Alan Hersey Nature Reserve and Bembridge Down.