Specialists in Roofing Maintenance and Restoration
Leak investigation and repairs on slate, terracotta and metal roofs across Newtown, Marrickville, Balmain and Glebe.
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Our Inner West work is fully insured. NSW contractor licence 500439C, held by Sergio Olea.
Most of the housing stock here is Victorian or Federation, which means slate and terracotta roofs well past their original design life, with lead flashing and concealed drainage that was never meant to be neglected. Terraces also share a roofline: a valley or a party wall often runs between you and next door, so a fault on one side becomes a problem on the other. On top of that, conservation areas through Balmain, Glebe and Annandale set rules on materials and finish, so a repair done with the wrong product can mean doing it twice.
We get onto the roof and go over it properly before quoting, rather than pricing from the ground.
We trace where water is actually entering, which with concealed drainage is often nowhere near the stain inside.
Broken or slipped slate is replaced piece by piece where possible, rather than sealed over with silicone that fails in two winters.
We check the lead work and flashings around parapets, party walls, chimneys and valleys, the usual failure points on these roofs.
Where a valley or roofline is shared with next door, we make clear which part sits on your side and which does not.
In conservation areas we work with materials and finishes that suit the building rather than whatever is quickest.
Call 0452 223 327 or send the form with your address and what you are seeing inside.
We inspect the roof, explain what we found and give you a price before any work starts.
We complete the repair, check the result and tidy up before we leave.
Yes. Slate is repaired by replacing the broken pieces and re-fixing them properly, not by sealing over the top. We match the slate as closely as we can and reuse sound material where it makes sense.
It is very common here and it needs a conversation before work starts. We scope the job so it is clear what sits on your side and what sits on the neighbour’s, and we are happy to talk it through with them. Fixing half a roof and watching the other half leak into it helps nobody.
They can. Conservation areas through Balmain, Glebe and Annandale have requirements around materials and finish, so we work to suit the building. Using the wrong material can mean the work has to be redone.
A ceiling stain on a terrace rarely improves on its own. Call us on 0452 223 327 or send the form for a free quote, from Glebe and Balmain through to Ashfield and Marrickville.
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Also servicing surrounding Inner West suburbs. See our Inner West roofing page, or how we handle roof repairs across Sydney.
Australian standards and Code requirements we work to, with the source for each.
CUSTOM ORB corrugated profile is rated down to a minimum roof pitch of 5 degrees. Laid flatter than that, water sits in the pans instead of running off and the sheet holds moisture against the fasteners, no matter how well it is screwed down.
KLIP-LOK concealed-fix sheeting can be installed to a pitch as low as 1 degree in 0.48 mm base metal thickness, meeting AS/NZS 1562.1:2018. That is the usual answer for a flat rear extension where corrugated sheet would not comply.
Sheet metal roof and wall cladding in Australia is installed to AS/NZS 1562.1. It sets the minimum pitch, the fastening pattern and the side and end laps for each profile. Work that departs from it is what an insurer points at after a storm claim.
Last updated: 8 October 2026
Roof repair in the Inner West has its own rules: heritage areas and tight access all change how the job is done. Everything below links to the council or standard it comes from, so you can check it yourself.
Marrickville DCP requires on site detention for any extension adding 40 square metres or more of roof or paving, and allows a 5,000 litre retention tank instead on lots over 200 square metres, plumbed to toilets, laundry and taps.
Source: Marrickville DCP 2011, section 2.25Inner West Council advises that almost any home built or renovated before the mid 1980s is likely to contain asbestos, commonly in fibro sheeting, roofing and guttering. Over 10 square metres, or anything friable, legally needs a licensed removalist.
Source: Inner West Council, AsbestosThe Annandale conservation area records terracotta, slate and some iron roofing, with a skyline of chimneys, decorative fire-wall dividers between terraces, ridge capping and finials. Those party walls between attached terraces are a recurring source of flashing and box gutter leaks.
Source: Inner West Council, C1 Annandale HCAInner West gives only two free skip bin permits per property per year in unmetered streets, and one in metered areas. The permit has to be in hand before the bin arrives and takes two business days. On narrow terrace streets where the bin cannot fit on the property, that permit is part of the job.
Source: Inner West Council, skip binsThe whole suburb is a conservation area, recognised as Australia first planned garden suburb, with a period of significance from about 1900 to the 1940s. In practice almost every roof job in Haberfield is a heritage job.
Source: Inner West Council, C54 Haberfield HCAWe cover Haberfield, Ashfield, Summer Hill, Croydon, Leichhardt, Annandale, Balmain, Rozelle, Lilyfield, Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, Petersham, Stanmore, Newtown, Enmore, St Peters, Tempe, Sydenham and Lewisham.
In the former Marrickville council area you may. The Marrickville DCP requires stormwater detention for any extension adding 40 square metres or more of roof or paving, and allows a 5,000 litre retention tank instead on lots over 200 square metres, plumbed to toilets, laundry and taps.
If the house was built or renovated before the mid 1980s, probably. Inner West Council advises that almost any home of that age is likely to contain asbestos, commonly in fibro sheeting, roofing and guttering, and more than 10 square metres, or anything friable, legally needs a licensed removalist.
Inner West terrace roofs leak at the party wall because that is where flashings and box gutters meet the shared fire wall. The Annandale conservation area records decorative fire-wall dividers between attached terraces, and those walls are a recurring source of flashing and box gutter leaks.
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