Roofers in Fareham | CJH Roofing

Roofers in Fareham — we cover the whole borough across PO14, PO15 and PO16 most weeks of the year. Fareham sits between Portsmouth and Southampton on the M27 corridor, and from our Drayton yard it's a 15-20 minute van run whether you're in Fareham town centre, out at Whiteley, or down toward Warsash and the Hamble. We treat the whole of Fareham as core service area, with no travel surcharge anywhere in PO14, PO15 or PO16.

The housing mix in Fareham is wider than almost anywhere else we cover. Whiteley and the new estates toward Welborne are dominated by modern stock — most of it built since 2000, increasingly being added to as Welborne phases come forward. The town centre, Portchester and the older parts of Titchfield are 1930s and 1950s semis with original concrete or clay tile roofs reaching the end of their first life. Wickham village and the conservation areas around Titchfield Square have period property where heritage knowledge matters: hand-made clay tile, natural slate, code 4 and code 5 lead, and lime-based mortars rather than modern cement mixes.

Stubbington, Locks Heath, Park Gate and Warsash sit between Fareham proper and the Hamble — predominantly 1950s-70s estate housing where extensions have been added across the decades, leaving a high concentration of flat-roof kitchens, utility rooms and garage conversions that are now reaching the age where the original felt or three-layer build-up is failing. EPDM re-cover with new edge trims is what we recommend on most of those.

Most quotes for Fareham work come back within 48 hours. Storm callouts within working hours we aim to attend within 2-3 hours, and we run a full emergency tarp-over service across PO14-PO16 during named-storm events.

Fareham is one of the fastest-growing parts of Hampshire. Whiteley alone has added thousands of homes since the original 1990s phase, and Welborne to the north of the M27 will add thousands more over the coming decade. Modern new-build properties in PO15 commonly develop minor roofing issues in years 3-7 of occupation: settling-related tile slips, small flashing gaps where two trades didn't quite meet, occasional ridge mortar shrinkage. Most of these are quick, inexpensive fixes when caught early — we see a lot of them on the Whiteley and Knowle estates.

The older Fareham housing stock around the town centre, Portchester and Catisfield is mostly 1930s and 1950s semis with original Marley or Redland concrete tiles. After 70+ years many of these are spalling at the edges and losing nail strength; spot repairs hold for a while but a strip-and-recover with a breathable membrane and dry-fix ridge is increasingly the right answer.

Wickham and Titchfield include conservation areas and listed property. Sympathetic period roofing — hand-made plain tile, natural Welsh and Spanish slate, code 4/5 lead, lime mortars — is part of how we work here. We will engage with the conservation officer where required and we won't push modern dry-fix systems on a Georgian or early-Victorian property where they would look wrong.

Properties immediately alongside the M27 see slightly higher long-term tile wear from traffic vibration and pollution. We typically find these roofs benefit from preventative ridge re-bedding and gutter work a few years earlier than equivalent properties further from the motorway.