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Carlton roof leak repairs
Carlton roof leak repairs follow slate and terrace roofs into the lane. A slipped unit or a narrow box gutter is the usual path. Roof Revival Melbourne scopes that length after the inspect. One wet bay on Rathdowne or Lygon is not a full re-roof. We do not price the terrace from the street.
Lane first, then the slipped unit
Carlton stock is slate and terrace. The bay is narrow, the gutter is often original, and the wet patch shows in a bedroom that shares a wall. Roof Revival Melbourne starts in the lane because that is where the ladder fits and where the box gutter actually runs. The service is roof leak repairs. The suburb index is the Carlton location page.
Slate fails by slipping, by nail sickness and by a cracked soaker at the party line. Terracotta on the same row fails at the hip mortar. Rear iron, where a kitchen was pushed out, fails at the lap. Those three repairs are not interchangeable, even when the terraces look identical from Lygon Street. We open the one that owns the stain. Sealant over a slate is not in the scope.
University-edge streets change parking more than they change the roof. A skip or a ute left on hope will not survive a teaching day. We write the access with the repair. If the ceiling is active, a make-safe holds the plaster. It does not become a heritage project and it does not become a metal roof. Carlton’s leak is the bay. A wider heritage scope waits until the inspect shows the field, not the soaker, has failed.
We will lift debris out of the gutter we are repairing. That is part of opening the path. It is not a wash, and it is not the reason the slate slipped. The nail and the soaker are the reason.
Inclusions
What a Carlton leak scope lists
Lane, unit, gutter. Without those three, there is no quote for a house we have not seen.
| Step | What is included | Carlton note |
|---|---|---|
| Inspect | Photos of the bay from the lane | Rathdowne and Lygon terraces are read from the rear, not the shopfront |
| Make-safe | Cover if plaster is active | A one-bay terrace changes how the cover is carried |
| Name the unit | Slate, terracotta hip or rear iron | The row can mix all three. The scope names yours |
| Local repair | That soaker, gutter section or lap | Sealant on slate is refused in writing |
| Access | Lane and university-edge parking | Booked with the repair, not argued on the morning |
| When to stop | Delaminated slate or wet sarking | A finished field is not patched because the bay is small |
No price from the street
Carlton lanes and slate bays are priced after we see them. A terrace row does not share one leak figure, and we will not publish one. The general way a leak is traced sits on finding the leak. Your bay is still a separate inspect.
When a Carlton leak repair is the wrong job
A patch will not hold on slate that has delaminated or on sarking that is already wet. Stripping a sound terrace because one unit slipped is the matching mistake in the other direction. Metal in place of a repairable slate bay is not the leak fix. We repair the length. If the roof has finished, we say so and we stop.
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Roof Revival Melbourne scopes a Carlton slate or terrace leak from the lane, one bay at a time. Call 0426 516 883 or email info@roofrevivalmelbourne.com.au.