Ardee and Castlebellingham roof notes

Start with the address. Write the real town or townland and the Eircode, not near Dundalk. Tallanstown, Louth village and Kilsaran turn up in the same searches, and a vague address sends the roofer to the wrong place. Whether a roofer travels this far is for them to confirm. Then check: The covering. Slate is common on the two-storey terraces around the square in Ardee and off Castle Street. Later estates toward the bypass are mostly concrete tile. Older farmhouses sometimes have fibre-cement sheets, which are neither. Name what you see. The weather. Did the drip come in heavy rain with no wind, or on a thaw? Still rain overloads valleys and gutters. A thaw opens up flashings and the joint where a bungalow return meets the main roof. The room. Many bungalows between Ardee and Castlebellingham have a sunroom or utility at the back with a felt roof behind a tiled front. If that is the wet room, use the flat roof notes too. The neighbours. On a terrace that shares a valley, say so. A shared valley changes what a fair repair looks like. If the water came in under a door rather than through the ceiling, it is not a roof job. Streets beside the Dee in Ardee can sit low when the river is high.

Ask the roofer to confirm they travel to your town and whether the fault is a valley, a bungalow return or a shared terrace.

Real town and Eircode on the form, photos from the garden, the weather it started in. Stay off the roof.

Inland Louth roofs leak from still rain and thaws, not from bay wind, so the checks differ from a house on the Dundalk shore.