Lead Work & Flashing in Ibstock

Lead Work in Ibstock: what to know

Lead does the quiet work on an Ibstock terrace: soakers and stepped flashings where shared stacks come through the slate, valley linings where back additions meet the main slope, and bay-window tops on the older rows off High Street. Most of it is original, and decades of expansion and contraction have split it at the folds and pulled it out of the brick joints; mastic in the split is a stopgap, not a repair. Failed lead comes off and new lead goes on at the correct thickness, in lengths that give it room to move, chased into the joints of the village’s own brick, and guaranteed in writing.