Roofers in Worthing

A flat town takes the wind differently

Brighton climbs; Worthing does not. Without the slope, the streets running back from the front do not step up out of the weather — they carry it inland. Salt and driven rain reach considerably further back from the sea here than in a town with a hill behind it, and we specify accordingly for several streets rather than just the front row.

Regency at the front, semis behind

There is fine early stock along the seafront — Warwick and Liverpool Terrace and the streets around them — on the same parapet-and-hidden-roof pattern as Brighton, with the same valley gutter to keep clear. Behind that sits a very large stock of interwar and post-war semis through Goring, Durrington and Tarring on concrete tile. Those roofs are durable, but the tile surface weathers and goes porous, which is why they green up so readily.

Concrete tile, moss and the pressure washer question

We get asked about pressure washing more in Worthing than anywhere else, because there is so much concrete tile and it does go green. The answer is no. It drives water up under the laps and strips what is left of the surface off the tile. Cleared by hand and re-bedded where needed, those roofs have years in them.