Fiddown, Co. Kilkenny

Re-roofing in Fiddown, Co. Kilkenny

Stripping and replacing a roof covering, felt and battens. Post your task free and professionals working in Fiddown reply with their own price. You choose, and pay them directly.

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County Kilkenny: 40.5% of households here are in dwellings built before 1981.

Re-roofing near Fiddown

Re-roofing: what the job involves

Stripping a pitched roof back to the rafters and re-covering it: new breathable membrane, battens, flashings, ridge and slates or tiles. It is the answer when slates are slipping everywhere or the felt has perished, and usually lasts for decades.

How long it takes: Usually one to three weeks for a house, depending on size, complexity and weather; timber repairs and a chimney rebuild add days.

The full guide to re-roofing — the steps, what is included, the Irish rules, paperwork and questions to ask.

What re-roofing in Fiddown costs, and why

What jobs on Talqero came to

Not enough comparable jobs yet to publish a range here. Talqero shows a price range only once at least five comparable jobs, agreed prices or offers exist — a range from fewer would describe a handful of jobs, not the market. Post your job and compare the offers you get.

What affects the price

Roof area, pitch and complexity: hips, valleys, dormers and chimneys
The covering chosen: natural slate, fibre-cement slate or concrete tile
Scaffolding for the whole job and its hire period
Timber repairs and new fascia found once the roof is open
Lead work on chimneys, valleys and abutments
Disposal, and whether the old covering contains asbestos
VAT: building work on a home is charged at the reduced 13.5% rate by a VAT-registered roofer, unless materials are more than two-thirds of the price (Revenue’s two-thirds rule)
VAT: building work on a home is charged at the reduced rate of 13.5% by a VAT-registered business — unless the materials come to more than two-thirds of the price, when Revenue’s two-thirds rule applies the goods rate to the whole job. Ask whether a quote includes VAT.

County Kilkenny: what the figures say

40.5% of households in County Kilkenny live in homes built before 1981 — close to the national figure of 40.7%, and the 10th highest share of the 26 counties.
Roofs on houses of that age were usually laid on bitumen felt rather than a breathable membrane and many are on their original covering, so one repair often turns up others — ask for photographs.
Central Statistics Office, 2022

What to ask before you choose

Will you send photographs of what you find and what you fixed?
Is scaffolding included, and for how long?
What guarantee is there on the work and on the materials?
Do you carry public liability insurance?
Is VAT included?

What the work usually involves

Replacing slipped or broken slates and tiles
Flat roof repairs and replacement
Gutters, fascia and soffit
Chimney flashing and roof windows

What to put in your task

Where the water comes in, and when — every rain or only in wind
The type of roof: slate, tile or flat
Photos from the ground, if you can take them safely
Whether there is access at the side and back

County Kilkenny in figures

Active construction enterprises: 1,351; Central Statistics Office, 2023
Homes built before 1981: 40.5%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Homes heated by natural gas: 21.3%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Homes heated by oil: 54.3%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Households: 36,685; Central Statistics Office, 2022

Construction as a whole. The CSO does not publish enterprise counts per trade at county level, so this figure is not a count of any one trade.

Re-roofing · Fiddown

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