Nationwide Roofing Southern offers professional and reliable roofing services across Hampshire. With over 50 years of experience, we provide tailored roofing solutions, from installations to repairs, with free surveys and quotes.
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Hampshire roofing enquiries come down to three things, mostly. A leak that has finally shown itself on a ceiling and needs tracing back to where the water is really getting in. A roof that has reached the end of its working life and is shedding material every winter rather than failing outright. And a flat roof on an extension or garage that has started to hold water instead of shedding it. Almost everything else, the surveys, the specifications and the guarantees, follows from which of those three you are actually dealing with.
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We prioritise timely project completion with minimal disruption to your home or business, ensuring you receive dependable roofing solutions when you need them.
Our fully accredited and qualified team adheres to the highest industry standards, ensuring safe, professional roofing installations and repairs.
We use premium materials to create long-lasting, weather-resistant roofs that protect your property for years.
We keep every system in house rather than fitting the one we happen to specialise in, so the advice is about your roof and not about our kit:
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A new roof starts underneath the covering. We strip back, check the battens, underlay and rafters, and put right whatever the old roof was hiding before anything new goes on. Given the spread of property across Hampshire, what turns up under a covering varies enormously, so we say at quote stage where we think we may find something rather than presenting it later as an extra. Everything is laid to the manufacturer’s specification so the warranty stands behind it.
Roofs get replaced when the covering has aged out rather than after one failure: tiles slipping every winter, mortar gone from ridge and verge, underlay that tears at a touch. A re-roof is also the only moment when everything beneath the tiles can be put right properly, so insulation and ventilation are worth settling then rather than afterwards. We will tell you honestly when a roof still has years left in it.
We trace a leak to where the water is getting in rather than to where it appears on the ceiling, and on a complicated roof those can be a long way apart. Valleys, abutments, flashings and the junctions around dormers account for most of what we are called to. On the Solent side add wind and salt working on fixings. Small repairs done properly and early cost far less than the ceiling that follows if they are left.
Flat roofs across Hampshire sit on extensions, garages, dormers, balconies and a great deal of commercial property. We install and repair felt, single ply, EPDM and GRP fibreglass systems, set the falls so water reaches the outlets rather than standing, and detail the upstands and abutments properly. A flat roof that holds water is usually a falls problem rather than a covering problem, and treating the symptom does not fix it.
Clay tile and natural slate on the older property, concrete interlocking across the post war and modern estates. We match size, profile and colour as closely as we can source when new material is needed, and weathered material never matches new exactly, so we say so before you commit rather than after. On a roof with several pitches and dormers the detailing at the junctions matters more than the tile itself.
A green roof needs a deck that will carry the loading, the right falls, and a waterproofing layer designed to sit beneath a growing medium. Across Hampshire the practical candidates are usually flat areas on extensions, garages and outbuildings, and newer development where the weight was designed in from the start. We survey before specifying anything and will say plainly if a roof is not suited to one.
Hot melt is a monolithic waterproofing system, laid hot so that it bonds completely to the deck with no seams or laps to fail. It earns its place where a leak would be expensive and disruptive to trace, and where the waterproofing sits beneath something else: a podium deck, a roof terrace, a car park or the build up of a green roof. Because the membrane bonds fully to the substrate, water cannot track between layers, so a defect stays where it happened rather than surfacing somewhere else entirely.
Across Hampshire it tends to be specified on commercial property and newer residential blocks where flat areas are large and access for future maintenance is difficult. It is one of our own core systems rather than something we subcontract, and we survey the deck and the existing build up before specifying it.
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Hampshire covers more ground than most counties and the roofs vary with it. Naval and Victorian terraces along the Solent, Georgian and older property around Winchester, cottages and timber framed buildings through the New Forest, chalk downland villages in the north, and a great deal of modern development around Basingstoke and the motorway corridor. There is no typical Hampshire roof, which is why the survey matters more here than a rule of thumb ever could.
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Nationwide Roofing Southern has been roofing across the South East for over 50 years. We are members of the National Federation of Roofing Contractors and we are CHAS accredited, with full public liability and employer’s liability insurance in place on every job and a certificate available on request. Our system warranties cover labour, materials and damage. Surveys and quotes are free, come in writing, and carry no obligation.
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We work across Hampshire, from the Solent coast up through Winchester and out into the north of the county. If a Hampshire roof is leaking, losing tiles or simply old enough to be worth a proper look, the survey costs nothing. We look at the roof and the loft rather than judging it from the ground, and put in writing whether it needs replacing, repairing or leaving alone.
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Hampshire covers everything from the Solent coast at Portsmouth and Southampton through the chalk downland of the North Wessex Downs to the New Forest in the south-west. Coastal and Solent areas see salt-laden air, south-westerly gales up the Solent and faster corrosion of metal flashing and fixings. Downland villages (Odiham, Kingsclere) see wind exposure and harder frost than the coast. The New Forest sees heavy tree cover, leaf fall and storm-fallen branches. Roof specifications need to follow each location’s exposure.
Yes. Hampshire has hundreds of conservation areas spread across its 11 district and borough councils plus the two unitary authorities of Portsmouth and Southampton. Many also fall within the New Forest National Park, the South Downs National Park or the North Wessex Downs National Landscape. Listed building consent and planning consent are the homeowner’s responsibility and depend on the relevant local authority and, where applicable, the National Park or Landscape authority. We recommend checking with the right local council before any roof work begins, and we will work to whatever specification they approve.
Hampshire housing stock varies sharply by area. Solent cities (Portsmouth, Southampton) have Victorian terraces, post-war rebuilds and modern waterfront apartments with a mix of natural-slate, clay tile, concrete tile and EPDM roofs. North Wessex Downs villages (Kingsclere, Odiham) have Georgian and Victorian brick townhouses, timber-framed cottages with clay tile or peg tile. The New Forest (Brockenhurst) has brick and timber-framed cottages constrained by National Park design rules. Modern estates use concrete tile and EPDM. Each requires a different approach.
After a strong south-westerly blow across Hampshire, look for slipped, cracked or missing tiles and slates, dislodged ridge or hip tiles, debris in valley gutters and parapet boxes, and damp patches on top-floor ceilings or chimney breasts. Coastal and Solent properties also need a check on salt-corroded fixings around lead flashing. New Forest properties need a check for storm-fallen tree limbs. If you spot anything, get it covered or assessed before the next weather front arrives.
Across the county, from the Solent coast up through Winchester and out into the north of Hampshire. If you are not certain whether your address is one we cover, the quickest thing is to ask. It costs nothing to find out.
Yes. What changes inside a National Park is not whether work can be done but what the specification is allowed to be. Materials, colour, roof shape and anything that alters the appearance can all be controlled, and on a listed building the controls are tighter again. Consent is the owner’s responsibility rather than ours, so it is worth speaking to the planning team early. We work to whatever specification is approved and will quote against that rather than against what we would otherwise have suggested.
Laying a new covering over an old one is quicker and cheaper on the day and it is usually a false economy. It leaves the perished underlay, tired battens and any rot exactly where they are, adds weight to a structure that was not designed for two coverings, and makes the eventual proper job more expensive because there is now twice as much to take off. It also tends to void the material warranty. We strip back and deal with what is underneath, and if that is not what you want to hear we would rather say it at quote stage than after.
They need more thought than a cold roof over an empty loft, because the insulation sits between and under the rafters and there is no open loft space for air to move through. Get that wrong and you trap moisture against the timbers. When we re-cover a roof like that we look at the insulation and the ventilation path together rather than treating them separately, and the dormer junctions get particular attention because that is where these roofs usually leak.
Two separate things, and it is worth knowing the difference. Public liability covers damage to your property or injury to anyone else caused by the work. Employer’s liability covers the people carrying it out, which matters to you because without it an injured worker on your property becomes your problem. We carry both on every job and a current certificate is available on request before anything starts. It is a fair question to ask any contractor, and a reasonable one to expect an answer to.
More urgent than it looks, because by the time water shows on a ceiling it has usually been in the structure for a while. Wet timber does not dry out inside a roof, insulation that has been soaked stops working, and a stain that appears once in heavy rain will appear again bigger. The repair itself is often small. What makes it expensive is leaving it through a winter and ending up replacing plaster, insulation and sometimes timbers alongside it.
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At Nationwide Roofing Southern, we are members of the National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC) and we are CHAS accredited. Our accreditations reflect our commitment to high-quality service, strict safety standards, and lasting results. Whether it’s repairs, installations, or maintenance, you can trust our skilled team to deliver reliable roofing solutions that meet industry expectations.
