We're roofers working across Stone, from the houses on London Road out to Cotton Lane and St James Lane. Our base is on Chastilian Road in west Dartford, so you're about eight minutes down the road. Stone has grown quickly. The parish had roughly 6,100 people in 2005 and 12,890 by the 2021 Census, which means older post-war streets now sit beside much newer ones. One thing links them. London Road (the A226) and the A282 approach to the Crossing are both air-quality management areas, and the traffic film from those roads lands in your gutters, on your lead and across your tiles. Grime hides cracks. So we clean before we judge, survey for free and put every price in writing. Then we tell you straight whether it's a repair or something bigger. If your roof is fine, you'll hear that too, and you won't pay a penny for the visit.
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Stone is built on chalk, and you don't have to dig to see it. Bluewater opened in 1999 inside the old Western Quarry chalk pit, and St James Pit lies just along the road. Long before the shops arrived, cement works ran on the marshes by the river, later trading as Blue Circle and then Lafarge. The railway reached Stone Crossing in 1908. Most of the housing came after the Second World War, when the old village filled out into the suburb you know now, strung between Dartford and Greenhithe. Heavy industry on one side, quarries on the other, and homes in between.
For a roofer, that history means you can't guess a roof's age from the house. A post-war semi may be on its second covering while a newer place two doors down is still on its first. Above it all stands St Mary the Virgin, the Grade I church rebuilt around 1251 to 1271. People call it the 'Lantern of Kent' because sailors on the Thames once steered by its beacon light, and its masons are linked to Westminster Abbey. Roofs on this hill have been taking river weather for over seven centuries. Yours only has to manage the next thirty, but it faces the same wind.
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Slipped tiles, cracked ridge mortar, a damp patch by the chimney. We trace where the water really gets in, fix that point, and send you photos of the repair before we pack up.
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Once the battens are soft and the old felt crumbles when you touch it, patching is money down the drain. We strip, re-felt and re-cover, and sort the building control side for you.
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Road dust off the A226 mixes with moss and leaves into a heavy sludge that chokes outlets. We clear, re-align or replace gutters, and check the boards and felt behind them.
Learn more about guttering, fascias & soffits in Stone →Chalk underfoot, heavy traffic on two sides and the Thames not far off. Here's how that changes what we look for once we're up the ladder.
London Road is one of Dartford's three air-quality management areas. Homes along it pick up a dark film on gutters, rooflights and flashings. The film itself does little harm, but it hides hairline cracks in mortar and splits in lead, so we wipe suspect areas back before deciding anything.
Flashings near busy roads often look black and tired when they're actually fine. Others look clean and are hanging loose. We lift edges, check the wedges and pointing, and press the lead back against the brickwork. You pay for what's broken, not for what's grubby. If a flashing only needs re-wedging, that's all the quote will say.
Traffic grit, moss and leaves set into a paste that's heavier than you'd think. Outlets block, water stands, and before long the back of the fascia goes soft. A yearly clear is a small bill next to new boards. Facing the A226 or the tunnel approach? Expect to need it more often.
Chalk drains well, which is good news for foundations. Where we do see movement is at the seams: a bay, porch or extension added years after the main house can shift a few millimetres and open a gap at the flashing. We check every one of those junctions on a survey.
With the parish roughly doubling in size since 2005, plenty of Stone roads mix post-war houses with recent builds. A repair has to match what's already there, tile profile and fixing method both, or it'll look wrong and fail early. If the exact tile is no longer made, we'll show you the closest options before anything goes on.
The QEII Bridge, right by Stone, shuts when crosswinds are forecast above 60mph. It closed in Storm Eunice and three times in January 2024. Ridge tiles and verges take the first hit, so they're top of our checklist before winter. A ridge that rocks under your hand in October is one that ends up on the lawn by February.
"The gutters we clear on Stone jobs close to London Road usually come out darker and heavier than the ones we empty a mile back from the main road."
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Years' cover on a new roof
1,000+
Roofing jobs finished
Paperwork in your hand on the last day. Not posted out "in due course".
Re-roof a house in Stone with us and you get 10 years of cover on the workmanship. It's a written document. It has your address on it, lists what was done, and is dated the day the roof is signed off. If water gets in because something was fitted wrong - a batten, a fixing, a lap, a flashing - a roofer comes back and puts it right. You don't pay for that.
Why are we happy to promise ten years? Because of how the roof goes on. Every tile or slate is mechanically fixed to BS 5534, the current British Standard. Ridges and hips are fixed too, not just sat in mortar. A breathable membrane goes down first. Where a roof meets a wall, a chimney or the house next door, it gets proper lead or a tested dry system. Shortcuts there are what make a guarantee expensive, so we don't take them.
Tiles, slates and membranes also carry the maker's own warranty. Those vary by product, and your paperwork tells you which ones apply. If a job is too unusual to guarantee in the normal way, you'll hear that at quote stage.
Call 01322 946667 or fill in the quote form. Tell us what you've noticed: a stain on the ceiling, a drip, a tile lying on the drive. We're open Monday to Saturday, 8 till 6, and we'll offer you a visit time that suits.
The free survey happens on the roof, not from the pavement. We check tiles, ridge, valleys, flashings and gutters, and the loft if you'll let us. Anything that looks suspicious under a layer of road grime gets wiped back and checked properly before we give you a verdict.
You get photos and a plain opinion. Sometimes that's a twenty-minute fix. Sometimes it's 'start budgeting for a new roof in the next few years'. We'd rather patch a sound roof than sell you one you don't need.
Every item is listed: materials, labour, scaffold, skip, VAT. If there's a chance something changes once the tiles come off, like rotten battens, we say so up front and put a price against it. The figure you agree is the figure you pay.
Scaffold or a tower goes up only where it's needed. On London Road frontages we plan around the pavement and the traffic. Drives, borders and conservatory roofs are covered before a single tile is lifted. If a neighbour's garden is involved, we'll ask them first.
Most repairs take a day or less. A re-roof takes longer, and the roof is kept weathertight every evening however far we've got. You'll hear from us at the end of each day so there are no surprises, and you can ask questions while we're still on site.
We clear any gutters we've worked above, sweep up and go through the finished photos with you. A re-roof comes with its 10-year guarantee in writing. A repair comes with a straight answer about what to keep an eye on.
Grade I listed church rebuilt between about 1251 and 1271, with stone carving often linked to the masons of Westminster Abbey. Its tower was once lit as a beacon for shipping, which earned it the name the Lantern of Kent.
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Dartford Borough Council park off Dawes Close in Stone, with open grass, a children's play area and outdoor gym equipment. From the higher ground there are views north towards the Thames.
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Playing field between London Road and Hayes Road, edged by lines of mature trees. The Stone Pavilion, a hall used for local clubs and functions, stands beside it.
Learn more about Stone Recreation Ground on Google MapsEvery review left for us so far has been five stars. We're adding them here as they come in.
Reviews only tell you so much anyway. When a roofer comes out to Stone, ask to see photos of a recent job on a house like yours. A good roofer will have plenty and won't mind you asking.
In Stone the price mostly comes down to access and what's hiding under the tiles. Re-fixing a few slipped tiles typically costs £180-450. A full ridge re-bed or re-fix is more like £450-1,200. A complete re-roof runs about £8,000-14,500 on a terrace, £10,500-16,000 on a typical semi and from £14,000 to £24,000 or more on a detached house. Homes fronting London Road can need extra planning for scaffold beside the traffic, and a house set back on a quiet close is usually cheaper to reach. The survey and quote cost nothing.
For like-for-like work, almost never. Planning in Stone is handled by Dartford Borough Council, and Stone Parish Council has its own Neighbourhood Plan, made in 2022. Re-roofing that doesn't change how the house looks normally needs no permission. Stone has no conservation area on the national planning dataset, although St Mary the Virgin is Grade I listed and any listed building is a separate case. Building Regulations are another matter: re-covering more than half the roof, or switching from slate to tile, usually needs approval, and we deal with that for you. If you're unsure about a particular change, ask us at the survey.
Traffic. The A226 London Road, from Swanscombe through to the A282, is an air-quality management area, and so is the tunnel approach to the Crossing. Exhaust particles settle on your roof, rain washes them down, and they bind with moss and leaves in the gutter. The black sludge won't hurt plastic guttering on its own. The trouble is that it blocks outlets and joints, water backs up, and then it runs behind the fascia. Clearing once a year is usually enough to stay ahead of it. If you've got trees nearby as well, make it spring and autumn.
Not directly. Chalk drains freely, so you don't get the heavy shrink and swell that clay ground causes in some places. Where it shows up for us is at joins. A porch, bay or extension built after the main house can settle a touch differently and open a gap where the flashing meets the wall. Stone also sits beside worked-out chalk pits, Bluewater and St James Pit among them. If you're worried about cracks in walls, get a structural engineer in. The roof side, we'll handle, and we'll tell you if we spot anything on the roof that suggests the walls are moving.
We're on Chastilian Road in west Dartford, roughly eight minutes away by road, and we work Monday to Saturday. After a big blow, like Storm Eunice in February 2022 when the QEII Bridge was shut, everyone rings at once. We deal with water actually coming in first and cosmetic damage after. And be careful who you let up your ladder. Kent Trading Standards warns that doorstep callers often offer bogus roof and gutter repairs, and storms bring them out. Get a written quote, check who you're dealing with, and never pay up front on the doorstep.
Tell us what you've spotted, a drip in the loft or a gutter spilling onto the drive, and we'll come and look. The survey is free. The price arrives in writing before anything starts.
