Nationwide Roofing Southern offers reliable, high-quality roofing services across West Sussex. With over 50 years of experience, we provide tailored roofing solutions with free surveys and quotes.
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West Sussex is really two roofing environments. Along the coast, from Chichester round through Littlehampton, Worthing and Shoreham, salt and wind uplift do the damage, and fixings, flashings and mortar fail long before the coverings above them do. Inland, around Horsham and Crawley, the problem is tree cover, shade and leaf fall blocking valleys, with estate housing where a whole slope ages at once. The same roof needs a different specification depending on which half of the county it sits in.
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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 work the whole county rather than a corner of it: Chichester and Bognor Regis in the west, through Arundel, Littlehampton, Worthing and Shoreham-by-Sea on the coast, and inland to Steyning, Henfield, Horsham and Crawley, plus the villages between them. Distance can affect how a job is scheduled, particularly something small that needs more than one visit, and if it makes any difference to a quote we say so up front rather than adding it on afterwards.
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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. What we find varies across the county, corroded fixings near the coast and perished felt on the inland estates, so we say at quote stage where we think the surprises may be. 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: slates slipping every winter, mortar gone from ridge and verge, underlay tearing at a touch. We will say when a roof still has years left in it. When it genuinely has not, replacing it once costs less than repairing the same roof repeatedly, and where several neighbouring properties are at the same stage it is usually cheaper to do the run together.
We trace a leak to where the water is getting in rather than to where it shows on the ceiling, which are often different parts of the roof. On the coast most call outs are corroded fixings and lifted flashings after a blow. Inland it is more often a valley blocked with leaf fall or a slipped tile on a shaded slope. Small repairs done early cost far less than what follows if they are left through a winter.
Flat roofs across the county sit on extensions, dormers, garages, balconies, maisonette blocks and a great deal of commercial property. We install and repair felt, single ply and liquid systems, set the falls so water reaches the outlets instead of standing, and detail the upstands and abutments properly. Flat roofs fail at their edges and junctions rather than in the middle, so that detailing is where the work really is.
Natural slate and clay tile on the older coastal and village property, concrete interlocking across the post war estates. We salvage and re-lay sound material where we can, and match size, profile and colour as closely as we can source when new is needed. On a conservation area property the specification may be set for you and we work to whatever is approved. Weathered material never matches new exactly, and we say so before you commit.
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 West Sussex the practical candidates are usually flat areas on extensions, garages and outbuildings, and newer commercial 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.
It is the system people most often come to us across the county for specifically, on commercial property and residential blocks where flat areas are large and getting back up for 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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Because the county covers such a range of building types, we keep every system in house rather than specialising in one and fitting it everywhere. That way the advice is about your roof and not about our kit:
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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, and full public liability and employer’s liability insurance is in place on every job, with a certificate available on request. Our system warranties cover labour, materials and damage. Surveys and quotes are free across the areas we cover and come in writing, with no obligation attached.
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Wherever you are in West Sussex, if a roof is leaking, shedding tiles or simply old enough to be worth checking, 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, with a price against it.
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West Sussex covers everything from the south-facing coast at Bognor Regis, Worthing and Littlehampton to the South Downs ridge and the Low Weald around Horsham and Crawley. Coastal areas see salt-laden air, south-westerly Channel gales and faster corrosion of metal flashing and fixings. Downland villages see wind exposure and harder frost than the coast. Wealden inland areas see wet winters, heavy clay soils, autumn leaf fall and storm-fallen branches. Roof specifications need to follow each location’s exposure.
Yes. West Sussex has hundreds of conservation areas spread across its seven district and borough councils, including Arun, Chichester, Worthing, Adur, Horsham, Mid Sussex and Crawley. Many also fall within the South Downs National Park. Listed building consent and planning consent are the homeowner’s responsibility and depend on the relevant district council and, where applicable, the South Downs National Park Authority. We recommend checking with the right local council before any roof work begins, and we will work to whatever specification they approve.
West Sussex housing stock varies sharply by area. Coastal towns (Bognor Regis, Worthing, Littlehampton, Shoreham-by-Sea) have Victorian and Edwardian seafront terraces with natural-slate roofs, plus modern apartment blocks. The South Downs villages have flint and brick cottages with clay tile or peg tile. The Weald (Horsham, Pulborough, Rudgwick) has timber-framed and tile-hung cottages plus distinctive horsham slab roofs on some historic properties. New Town Crawley is dominated by post-war concrete interlocking tile estates. Each requires a different approach.
After a strong south-westerly blow across West Sussex, look for slipped, cracked or missing slates and tiles, dislodged ridge or hip tiles, debris in valley gutters and parapet boxes, and damp patches on top-floor ceilings or chimney breasts. Coastal properties also need a check on salt-corroded fixings around lead flashing. Wealden properties need a check for storm-fallen tree limbs. If you spot anything, get it covered or assessed before the next weather front arrives.
We cover the county end to end: Chichester and Bognor Regis in the west, through Arundel, Littlehampton, Worthing and Shoreham-by-Sea along the coast, and inland to Steyning, Henfield, Horsham and Crawley. If you are somewhere in between and not certain whether your address is covered, the quickest thing is to ask rather than assume. It costs nothing to find out.
Yes. Surveys and quotes are free across the areas we cover, and the quote is set out in writing so you can see what is included before deciding anything. There is no obligation attached to a survey. We would far rather look at a roof and tell you it does not need the work than sell you something it does not need, and on plenty of surveys that is exactly what happens.
Yes, alongside domestic work, and the county has plenty of it: commercial units, newer blocks and larger buildings with substantial flat roof areas. Those are where a system like hot melt earns its place, laid as a continuous waterproof layer with no seams to lift and no laps to fail. The process does not change with the size of the building. We survey the roof and what sits beneath it, then set out in writing what we found and what we would do.
Yes, across the county. Hot melt is a monolithic waterproofing system, laid hot so that it bonds fully to the deck with no seams, and it is typically specified on flat areas where a leak would be difficult and expensive to trace, or where the roof carries something above it such as a terrace, a deck or a green roof build up. It is one of our own core systems rather than something we subcontract. We survey the deck and the existing build up before specifying anything.
We work across West Sussex and into the neighbouring counties, so the edges of the county are not a problem in themselves. Distance can affect how a job is scheduled, particularly for something small that needs more than one visit. If it makes any difference to what we quote, we say so up front rather than adding it on afterwards, so there is nothing to discover at the end that you did not know at the start.
Yes. New roofs on extensions, garage conversions and new build plots are all work we take on, alongside re-roofing existing properties. West Sussex has a great deal of new development. A new roof on an extension has to tie into the existing roof properly where the two meet, and that junction is where problems tend to surface later if the work was rushed, so it is worth getting right first time. We would much rather be involved before the covering goes on than called back afterwards.
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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.
