South Shields is home, so a call-out here is a short run and urgent leaks usually get looked at the same week..
NE32Jarrow is ten minutes up the road and most of the work there is terraced slate, ridges and roofline..
NE31Hebburn is a regular run for us and the jobs there are usually repairs, ridges and full rooflines rather than complete re-roofs..
NE35Boldon covers three villages and a colliery estate, so a week there can be a tiled semi one day and an old stone cottage the next..
SR6Cleadon village has a conservation area running through it, so matching what is already on the roof matters more there than most places..
SR6Whitburn sits right on the coast and takes the weather straight off the North Sea, which shows up as ridge and verge work more than anything else..
SR1Sunderland is a short run south and the housing there ranges from single storey Sunderland cottages to full Victorian terraces, which need very different things..
NE8A lot of Gateshead is Tyneside flats, where the roof is shared between two households and the job needs both of them talking to each other..
NE38Washington is new town housing, so the roofs there are largely the same age and the same tile, and they tend to need the same things at the same time..
NE1Newcastle is the far end of the patch and the work there is mostly slate on terraces and Tyneside flats rather than tiled suburban roofs..
NE28Wallsend is straight through the tunnel from us and the terraced and Tyneside flat roofs there are the same pattern as Jarrow and Hebburn..
NE29North Shields is a ferry ride or a run through the tunnel and the property near the river takes the same wind and salt that we get on our side..
NE30Tynemouth is period seafront property in a conservation area, which means matched slate and proper leadwork rather than the quick version..
NE26Whitley Bay seafront takes as much weather as anywhere on this coast, and ridges, verges and flashings are what fail there first..
DH4Houghton is the southern end of what we cover and the split there is roughly half old colliery terrace, half modern estate tile..
SR7Seaham is a straight run down the coast and the property nearest the front there needs its ridges and flashings looking at more often than most..
NE10Felling is mostly terraced and Tyneside flat work, which usually means slate, ridges and getting two households agreed on one roof..