Lead Work & Flashing in Loughborough

Lead Work in Loughborough: what to know

Loughborough is a town of red brick and bay windows, and the lead on those bays along Leicester Road and the student streets is often original — well past a century of expanding and contracting, and split along the folds. Mastic smeared into the crack is a stopgap that rarely sees out a season. We renew bay tops, valley linings and chimney flashings in the correct code, cut short enough to take up movement rather than tear, and dress them by hand. Parapet gutters on the older buildings around Market Place and Church Gate hide their leaks well: flats above shops let water in through junctions invisible from the street.