Cladding in Dunstable

Cladding in Dunstable

Dormer cheeks and boarded gables on chalet bungalows around Dunstable need the timber behind them checked before new cladding goes on.

Dunstable's conservation appraisal records original slate roofs replaced with concrete tiles, changing both their appearance and the load carried by the structure. Adam checks your installed covering before proposing another change. On an older house, he looks for movement and examines the timber beneath, then photographs the findings for your written repair explanation.

Beyond the central crossroads, interwar and postwar streets bring tiled semis, bungalows and garage additions with their own recurring faults. Adam checks your eaves felt, ridge bedding and extension junctions together. A leak where the addition meets the house receives a traced diagnosis, with the damaged component identified before the repair is priced.

Rising chalk ground towards Dunstable Downs and Kensworth leaves some properties facing open land, making exposure part of your inspection after wind driven rain. Adam examines verge security and flashing closely. For central buildings, he also establishes the material match and working space beside neighbouring premises, so your quotation accounts for the practical work required.

West of the town, Totternhoe sits below the chalk of Totternhoe Knolls, where the soft building stone known as Totternhoe clunch was quarried for centuries. Older cottages there combine clunch, brick, clay tiles and slate, so Adam checks the wall tops, chimney stacks and lead junctions as carefully as the covering itself, and photographs each one for your quote.