Roofing & building, and the record to show for it
Loft conversions, extensions and all types of roofing and building, by a firm on the register since 1998. Twenty-seven years of roofs teaches you the one thing that matters: do it properly and you never see the job again.
What we do
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The cheapest room you will ever add is the one already under your roof. Dormers, hip-to-gable, rooflights — planned around the ridge you actually have, built weathertight fast, and finished so it feels like the house always went up there.
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Rear and side extensions from footings to felt. The roof is where an extension succeeds or fails — the junction with the old house, the falls, the flashings — which is why a roofing firm building your extension is the right way round.
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The van says all types because it means it: slate and tile, flat roofs, re-covers, repairs, leadwork, roofline. Twenty-seven years of London and Hertfordshire weather is the spec every roof here is built to.
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The building work that comes with the big jobs and the small jobs that come with being trusted: structural openings, render, brickwork, the making-good that separates finished from nearly finished.
Why it matters
A loft conversion or an extension is a job you take two or three quotes on, from firms you have never met, for more money than you spend on anything but the house itself. Every firm quoting will tell you they are reliable. Only the register can tell you how long they have actually been at it.
Cockfosters Roofing & Building Limited was incorporated on 9 March 1998 — company 03523592, checkable in ten seconds. Twenty-seven years of trading through every winter, recession and materials shortage since is not a promise about the work; it is evidence of how the work has gone.
And the honest limit: a roof or a loft is priced by looking at it, not from a photograph. Send pictures to start the conversation, and expect the real number after a visit — anything else is a guess dressed up as a quote.
How it runs
WhatsApp is easiest — photographs of the roof, the loft or the plans, and roughly what you want done. It is the same number as the mobile.
Roofs from the ground and the ladder, lofts from inside the loft. What a job costs depends on what is up there, and twenty-seven years has taught the firm not to price what it has not seen.
Given plainly, with what is included and what is not. If something turns up once a roof is opened, you hear about it and agree it before it is fixed.
The sequence that matters on every job this firm does: watertight first, pretty second, swept up third. In that order, every time.
Clients
Watertight two days after they opened the roof, and the dormer looks like it was always part of the house.
Quoted after getting up there, not from the pavement. The price was the price, and the garden was spotless every evening.
One firm did the lot — the build, the roof, the making good. Nobody waiting on anybody else.
All three are written for this demonstration. The firm's real reviews exist — long-form and glowing, on Checkatrade, MyBuilder and BookaBuilder — and would replace these, quoted verbatim and attributed, before this page went anywhere. For a firm that has run on referral since 2003, the real words are the whole pitch.
Questions
The van says all types of roofing work undertaken and it is meant — repairs and small jobs sit alongside the re-roofs and the lofts. Send a photograph of the problem and you will get a straight answer either way.
One firm, this one — the structure, the roof, the weatherproofing and the building work are the same outfit rather than a chain of subcontractors passing the job along. That is most of what twenty-seven years of the trade buys you.
By seeing it. A roof is priced off the ladder and a loft from inside it, because what it costs depends on what is up there. The look costs nothing, and the price you are given is explained rather than just stated.
Ring with the postcode and ask — twenty-seven years of jobs have gone further than you would guess, and the honest answer depends on the job as much as the map.
Yes — Cockfosters Roofing & Building Limited, company number 03523592, incorporated 9 March 1998 and active. You can check it on Companies House in ten seconds, which is rather the point of printing it.
