Roof Repairs in Cherrybrook

A suburb built in one generation

Cherrybrook went up largely through the 1980s and 1990s on what had been orchard and small farm land, which gives it something unusual: a very consistent housing stock. Large two-storey brick homes on generous blocks, in Hornsby Shire, with bushland reserves along the edges and heavy established tree cover between the houses.

Consistent housing means consistent roof problems, and roofs built in that window are now all arriving at the same maintenance point together.

What a thirty-five-year-old Cherrybrook roof needs

• Repointing and rebedding. The flexible pointing from the original build has crazed and the bedding mortar has gone drummy. On a two-storey roof with long hip runs this is substantial work and the highest-value repair available.
• Valley replacement. Decades of leaf and bark under established trees means the lower section of the valley iron has usually corroded through.
• Flashings at wall junctions. Where a single-storey wing meets a two-storey wall, or where a later extension changed the roofline.
• Sarking assessment. Original sarking may be torn, perished or shredded by possums. It is the reason one cracked tile can soak a ceiling.
• Gutters and leaf guard. Metal mesh sized for eucalypt debris, plus separate valley mesh.

Most of those add up to a tile restoration rather than a replacement, because the tiles themselves are usually sound.

Two-storey access on a treed block

Cherrybrook roofs are high, often steep, and the gardens are mature. Finding safe ladder footing is frequently the hardest part of the day. Access cost appears as its own line in the quote so it is visible rather than absorbed into a single figure.

Get an honest read on it

Call (02) 9100 0388 or request a free inspection. If somebody has already told you the roof needs replacing, a written inspection report gives you a second opinion before you commit.

Nearby: West Pennant Hills, Castle Hill and Dural. See the full service area.