Roof replacement

Repair has a limit

Repairs are for local failures. Replacement is for a covering that has stopped being dependable: widespread rust, fasteners gone across a slope, battens or purlins that sag, ridges that have been remade more than once, leaks that return in new rooms after each visit. On the form, “old or worn-out roof” is the usual label. “Rust or corrosion” belongs here too when it is no longer a patch of discoloration at the eaves. Micheletti Construction will say if a roof you thought was finished can still be repaired. The incentive on a marketplace site runs the other way. This is not that site.

A replacement includes the new covering and a decision about what is under it. If the deck or the steel is tired, putting a new sheet on it repeats the sag. If the gutters are undersized for a Lagos storm or blocked with Abuja dust, a new sheet will still overflow. Thebuilding pages exist because some “roof jobs” are structure jobs that start at the ceiling.

Stripping is the risky part

The old covering is what is keeping today’s rain out, even if it is doing it badly. Taking it off opens the rooms. The programme therefore works in bays that can be covered again before the weather turns, with a temporary sheet that is a real cover and not a hope. In Lagos, mean annual rainfall above 1,800 millimetres and a second peak after the August lull make a casual strip expensive. A house in Lekki or on Victoria Island also has wind. In Ibadan the lull is similar and the second peak, around September in the cited rainfall study, is how an optimistic August start gets punished. In Abuja the wettest months pile up in July, August, and September; the dry season and the harmattan months are kinder for an opening, with dust managed so it does not fill the new laps before the first rain.

Occupied houses need a dry room to sleep in. Commercial buildings need a dry bay to trade or store in. Tell us which. A replacement priced as an empty site will meet a family or a warehouse on Monday and become a different job.

Materials without a catalogue speech

Long-span aluminium, stone-coated metal, and concrete tiles are the conversations we actually have. Older corrugated sheets are usually what is coming off, not what is going back on, unless there is a specific reason. The metal roofing page says more about coatings and fasteners. We do not print a gauge as a motto. The right specification depends on the span, the pitch, the salt in a coastal Lagos air, and the dust in Abuja. A stone-coated sheet is not automatically “better” than a long-span sheet. It is different, and it fails differently if the fixing and the valleys are casual.

Height changes everything. A bungalow in Festac or Akobo is not a three-storey house in Ikoyi or Maitama. Scaffold, edge protection, and how sheets are lifted are cost drivers alongside the material itself. Access through an estate gate in Magodo, Gwarinpa, or Old Bodija can limit the hour a truck arrives. Those are reasons the quote follows a look.

What we will not do on this page

We will not show a replaced roof and call it ours. We will not name a client. We will not offer a “from” price in naira. We will not promise the job finishes before a particular rain. We will talk about the season when we know the address and the size. Request a quote with the neighbourhood, the storeys, and whether anyone has repaired the roof in the last few years. If you have the old material’s name, add it. If you do not, an inspection is a respectable first step, not a lesser one.