Homes and roofs in Mayfair
Mayfair's housing is mostly Georgian and Victorian townhouses, many rebuilt in red brick and terracotta in the late nineteenth century, alongside mansion flats and mews. Roofs are a mix of slate mansards, hidden valley roofs behind parapets, lead-covered flats and small dormers, with tall shared chimney stacks along the party walls.
Roofing work most asked for in Mayfair
Mayfair calls are mostly for leak tracing on hidden roofs, lead parapet and box gutter repairs, mansard slate repairs, chimney repointing and the flat roofs over mews houses. Managing agents and residents' companies ask for a written scope they can put to every leaseholder.
The faults we fix on Mayfair roofs
The faults behind most Mayfair call-outs are split lead in parapet and box gutters, blocked outlets that send rain back over the lining, slipped slates on the steep mansard faces, and cracked rendering or pointing on stacks. On mews houses the flat roofs fail at their edges and where they meet the taller building next door.
What your free survey in Mayfair checks
On a Mayfair survey we walk or fly the parapet gutters and check every outlet and hopper, look at the lead on mansard cheeks and dormers, test the slate fixings on the steep front slopes, and check the chimney stacks shared along each terrace. You see the findings in photos, with what needs doing now kept apart from what can wait.
Weather and exposure
Tall Mayfair buildings shelter each other at street level, but their roofs sit in open air above the parapets. Rain driven across the roof line collects in parapet gutters, and plane-tree leaves from Grosvenor Square and Berkeley Square block the outlets every autumn.
Streets and postcodes we cover
We cover all of Mayfair across W1J, W1K and W1S, from Park Lane to Regent Street and from Oxford Street down to Piccadilly, including Shepherd Market and the mews behind Mount Street.
Access and planning
Much of Mayfair is a conservation area with many listed buildings, and scaffold on the pavement needs a Westminster licence. We plan access, protection and the order of work with you before we start, and the plan goes in your written quote.
