Based in Brighton and covering Sussex first, then out across Surrey, Kent and Hampshire for the right job. The towns below are where the work comes from most often, not a limit on where Paul will travel for specialist leadwork.
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Brighton is home ground, and its Regency stucco, bow fronts and rooftop parapets between them use more lead per street than almost anywhere else on the south coast.
BN1Hove is street after street of wide Victorian and Edwardian terraces with deep bay roofs and hidden parapet gutters, which is exactly the combination that keeps a lead roofer busy.
BN3Shoreham sits right on the Adur with the harbour mouth open to the Channel, and roofs there take wind off the water from two directions at once.
BN43Worthing runs from seafront terraces with lead-covered bays and canopies to interwar semis inland, so the right answer changes considerably depending which end of town the job is.
BN11Lewes is a tight old county town of listed and conservation-area buildings where what the roof is allowed to be made of is decided long before anyone talks about price.
BN7Eastbourne has a large stock of tall Victorian seafront property with parapet gutters and hidden valleys, and salt-laden wind straight off the Channel testing every one of them.
BN21Seaford is about as exposed as the Sussex coast gets, sitting between the sea and the Downs with nothing to break the wind, and the roofs there tell you so every winter.
BN25Newhaven is a working port town, so alongside the housing there is a lot of commercial and harbour-side roofing where the priority is getting a building watertight rather than pretty.
BN9Haywards Heath grew round the railway, so the housing runs from solid Victorian villas near the station out to large postwar estates, each with a different set of roof problems.
RH16Burgess Hill is mostly postwar and modern housing, which means flat roof extensions, dormers and tile re-roofs rather than heritage leadwork, and it is a short run up from Brighton.
RH15Crawley pairs a small conservation-area core with a large new town built to a pattern, so a lot of the work is flat roofs and standard details repeated across whole neighbourhoods.
RH10Horsham has its own roofing tradition in Horsham stone slab, and the old core around the Causeway is full of listed buildings where a repair has to be done in the right material or not at all.
RH12Arundel is a small town with a very large amount of listed and ecclesiastical roof above it, which is the kind of leadwork worth travelling for.
BN18Hastings Old Town is steep, tight and old, with roofs that were built long before anyone thought about scaffold access, so the planning of a job there matters as much as the work.
TN34Tunbridge Wells is Georgian and Victorian on a generous scale, with tile hanging, deep parapets and a good deal of decorative lead that was never meant to be replaced with something simpler.
TN1Uckfield sits on the edge of the Weald with tile-hung and timber-framed property around it, where roof repairs run into the fabric of the building very quickly.
TN22Chichester is a Roman-planned cathedral city with a Georgian core, so the leadwork there tends to be on buildings where the detail is expected to match what was there before.
PO19Guildford is at the northern edge of the patch and takes a substantial piece of work to justify the run, which is normally exactly what comes from there.
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