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Nineteen Cape winters
Tinkloof has been climbing Helderberg roofs since 2007. Everything we know about roofs on this side of the mountain was learned by being on them in July.
Roofing for the windy side of the mountain
The southeaster hits Somerset West first and hardest. Lifted ridging and wind-driven rain under the flashings taught us the trade.
We run nine trades because the cause of a leak and the damage it does are rarely the same trade. A lifted flashing becomes a wet wall plate, then a stained ceiling, then a cornice coming away. We trace it, close the roof, fix whatever gutter or fascia went with it and put the ceiling and cornice repair on the same quote, so you deal with one company from the ridge down to the room.
Every job has one named foreman from the first morning to the final walk-round, and he phones you at the end of each day with what was done. Trustees tend to come back to us for that phone call more than for the price, and it is the one habit we will not drop as the diary fills.
- Established
- 2007
- Based in
- Somerset West
- Trades
- Nine
- Report back
- 48 hours
No price without a ladder
We do not quote from the driveway or from a photo on your phone. Somebody climbs up, photographs each defect and writes it down, and the price comes after that, so you approve what you have seen rather than what you have been told.
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The call
You tell us the address
Phone 021 853 417, or reach the owner on 083 271 946 for quotations. Tell us what you are seeing and roughly when it started.
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On the day
We get onto the roof, or put a platform up
Every reachable section is walked. On fragile sheeting or a roof too big to walk in a morning, we hire an access platform and inspect from that.
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In the quote
Photographs, not adjectives
A written report with pictures of each defect, so you can see the cracked valley or the lifted ridging yourself and decide what to approve.
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Every day on site
Your foreman runs the work
The same person every day, with the same crew under him. Work starts each morning with a ten-minute toolbox talk on the ground.
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Last hour
We clean up and walk it with you
Site left clean, offcuts removed and the finished work checked with you before the team leaves.
Nobody goes up untrained
Roofing has a lot of people passing through it. Ours mostly stay, and the same faces coming back every winter is the clearest thing we can tell you about how the company is run.
A new starter spends a full season on the ground first, carrying, cleaning and watching the foreman, before working a pitch alone. By the time anyone goes up, they know the harness, the anchor and the walk boards as well as they know the roof.
- Harness and anchor on every pitched roof, not only the steep ones
- Public liability cover, with the certificate attached to every quote
- Walk boards on fibre cement and older sheeting, without exception
- A trained first-aider and a full kit with every crew
- A toolbox talk on the ground before work starts each morning
What we work in
Coverings
- Concrete tile
- Clay tile
- Natural slate
- Fibre cement slate
Sheeting
- IBR
- Corrugated
- Standing seam
- Polycarbonate sheets
Waterproofing
- Torch-on membrane
- Liquid rubber
- Bituminous coatings
- Box gutter linings
Rainwater
- Roll-formed aluminium gutter
- PVC gutter & downpipe
- Galvanised gutter
- Leaf guards
Trim & finishing
- Timber fascia & barge
- Ridge & hip capping
- Flashings & aprons
- Valley linings
Buildings that stay open while we work.
Most of our commercial roofs have people under them: residents, pupils, guests or stock. Planning the work around them is half the job.
- Body corporatesOne leak is forty owners' problem and a special levy nobody voted for.
- Retirement estatesOccupied rooms, residents who cannot move out for a week and no tolerance for noise or mess.
- Wine cellars & packhousesThere is product under that roof. A December leak costs more than the roof did.
- SchoolsSix usable weeks a year to do the work in, and the holidays do not move for anyone.
- GuesthousesEvery extra day of scaffolding is a room that cannot be sold.
- Light industrialLong spans, tired sheeting and a floor full of stock that cannot get wet.
Start with a look at the roof
No charge for the visit, no obligation after it and a written report with photographs either way.
Book a free site quote 021 853 417
