Northampton dominates the roofing trade in Northamptonshire. Nearly half of the roofers listed for the county are based in the town, and they include the firms with the longest review records here, such as Weathershield Roofing & Guttering Services and Abacus Roofing. Kettering and Wellingborough come next, then Corby and Rushden, with smaller groups in Daventry and Towcester to the west and south.
The county is split between two councils. West Northamptonshire Council covers Northampton, Daventry, Towcester and Deanshanger. North Northamptonshire Council covers Kettering, Wellingborough, Corby, Rushden and the villages around them, including Earls Barton and Mears Ashby, which sit just outside Northampton. Each council runs its own building control service and issues a completion certificate when work passes, and buyers' solicitors and lenders commonly ask to see that certificate when a house is sold.
Commercial and industrial roofing is a bigger part of the trade here than in Buckinghamshire. More than half of the county's roofers take on commercial work, and several specialise in it, including JDB Industrial Roofing in Kettering, All Aspect Group in Wellingborough and Premier Roofing Systems in Corby. E P Mills Roofing & Supplies in Corby combines contracting with a roofing supply yard, and Warkton Roofing near Kettering also sells materials.
For a house, the work on offer is broad. Roof repairs, new roofs and flat roofing are each named by most of the roofers whose websites describe their services, and guttering, fascias and soffits follow close behind. Leadwork and chimney repairs are named most often by Northampton firms, and roof windows are a speciality of a smaller group.
Re-covering a roof normally needs Building Regulations approval. A roofer registered with CompetentRoofer or NAPIT can certify a roof replacement themselves, and otherwise the work goes through the council's building control. Scaffolding on the pavement needs a council licence, which the scaffolding company applies for; in both council areas a householder cannot apply directly.
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