Professional Roof Repairs in Rathmines

We're based in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 — the run via the M50 or in through the city puts the team in Lower Rathmines, Belgrave Square or Castlewood Avenue in roughly 20–25 minutes. For an emergency leak — particularly a parapet-gutter failure where water enters behind the facade — we leave with the lead, slate and timber to make the roof watertight on the first visit.

It's the single most common leak on Rathmines red-brick terraces. The original parapet gutter behind the front facade was lined in lead with timber gutter boards. After 130+ years the lead is fatigued, joints split, and water finds its way down through the cornice into the front room ceiling. We strip back the lead, replace the gutter boards where rotten, and re-lay in code 5 or single-ply membrane with proper falls.

Yes. Large parts of Rathmines fall under Architectural Conservation Area or protected-structure designations. We specify natural Welsh or Bangor slate hand-cut to the original size, lime mortar where the original used lime, code 4/5 lead, and original-profile ridge tiles. We can also document the materials on the quote so it's clear for any conservation conversation.

Yes — a high share of Rathmines Victorians are now multi-unit apartments. The rear return roofs are often flat or low-pitch with original lead or later felt, and the upstand junctions to the main rear wall are the leak point. We work with management companies, coordinate access through individual units, and refurbish single-ply, EPDM or torch-on systems on the rear-return flats.

The Rathmines stacks are some of the tallest in Dublin — multi-flue, with corbelled brickwork and multiple flashing returns. We repoint in lime-compatible mortar, re-flaunch the stack head, replace cracked pots and re-lead apron and step flashings in code 4/5. We rebuild a section of brickwork where it has separated. We don't patch a single face with mastic and call it done.