Roof Repairs, Gutters and Roof Restoration in Randwick

Randwick packs three building periods into one suburb. The village dates from the mid nineteenth century, with High Cross on the ridge at its centre, and the older streets still hold Victorian, Federation and Inter-War buildings side by side.

The roof changes with the street. Council lists slate roofs for the High Cross area, home to the ten two storey Victorian terraces at 2 to 20 Mears Avenue. For the St Marks area, with its Late Victorian villas on large lots in St Marks Road and Dutruc Street, it lists terracotta tiles and slate. In The Spot, where Federation bungalows sit near Inter-War flat buildings, the listed roofing is terracotta and slate, while the single fronted workers cottages of Struggletown, between Young, Barker and Botany Streets, generally have simple pitched corrugated iron roofs.

All of these places are heritage conservation areas, and the rules favour repair. On heritage items and contributory buildings, Part B2 of the Randwick DCP says roof materials must match the existing ones and chimneys must be retained. Minor repairs to roofing may not need development consent, but Council must be consulted first, and on a heritage item or in a conservation area a Heritage Exemption Certificate is needed before the work starts.

Big trees are part of these streetscapes too: the Moreton Bay figs in St Pauls Street, the fig plantings along Avoca Street and the Norfolk Island pines in High Cross Park. Where branches reach a roof, leaves gather in gutters and valleys, so gutter cleaning and gutter guard are worth planning around them. Our Eastern Suburbs work is fully insured. NSW contractor licence 500439C, held by Sergio Olea.