Roof emergency?
Call 01388 335 061 — same-day response, County Durham & the Northeast
01388 335 061·Inkerman, Tow Law · DL13 4HG·Mon–Fri 09:00–17:00
CHAS Advanced · NFRC · Reset ComplianceThe brief: recover nine tenanted bungalows under one planned programme.
The client was a charitable housing association managing homes across County Durham, Tees Valley, North Yorkshire and Tyne and Wear. The instruction covered 1-9 The Close in Cotherstone — a terrace of nine bungalows in a Teesdale village, all in occupation through the works.
Evenii was appointed to deliver the roof replacements as a single phased programme rather than property-by-property reactive calls. The scope covered new roof coverings, upgraded fascia and barge details, refurbishment of the existing cast iron rainwater goods, and bat box installation to meet ecological enhancement requirements.
The starting condition was typical end-of-life housing stock — weathered coverings, tired fascia and barge timber, and cast gutters that were serviceable but in need of refurbishment rather than wholesale replacement. The programme was specified to bring the whole row back to a planned-maintenance baseline in one mobilisation.
02 — Tenanted housing constraintsLive homes, tenant access and a village street shaped the way we worked.
Every property was occupied. That set the operating model — daily tenant access to front doors and gardens, parking arrangements, refuse collection days and any vulnerable-tenant flags were factored into the programme before scaffold went up. The housing association housing officer was the single point of coordination for tenant communications.
Cotherstone is a small Teesdale village with narrow approaches and shared street parking. Deliveries, scaffold lifts and waste removal were scheduled to avoid school-run hours and to keep the public footway clear. Skip placement and tile drop locations were agreed property by property rather than pushed across the whole terrace at once.
Working hours, noise expectations and dust controls were communicated to tenants in writing before the works started. The terrace was sequenced so that each bungalow was stripped, recovered and made watertight inside a defined window, with temporary protection in place overnight and at weekends.
03 — SpecificationNew coverings, fascia and barge upgrades, cast gutter refurbishment and bat boxes.
The roof coverings were stripped back to the structural deck, new underlay and battens were installed, and the roofs were recovered to the specified profile. Verges, ridges and abutments were detailed to current NFRC workmanship standards rather than matched to the worn-out details being removed.
Fascia and bargeboards were upgraded as part of the same scope, giving the row a consistent finished line and removing the rot points that were drawing the next round of reactive calls. Cast iron rainwater goods were retained, refurbished and re-hung — the right call on stock of this age, and a cleaner outcome than wholesale replacement with modern plastic.
Bat boxes were installed to the recovered roofs to meet the ecological enhancement and biodiversity requirements that increasingly attach to housing improvement programmes. Locations and box types were agreed with the client before installation so the records sat cleanly inside the housing association asset file.
04 — Site delivery around residentsPhased scaffold, tenant-aware sequencing and standard Evenii site controls.
Scaffold was erected in phases across the terrace rather than encasing all nine properties at once. That kept tenant access predictable, reduced the visual impact on the village street, and matched the working face to the strip-and-recover sequence rather than tying up the whole row in advance of the works.
The site team worked to standard Evenii controls — CHAS Advanced safety management, NFRC workmanship standards and Reset Compliance for site conduct. RAMS, daily briefings and progress reporting kept the housing association surveyor, the housing officer and the wider asset team aligned through the programme.
Tenant-facing conduct was treated as part of the specification, not an afterthought. Operatives carried identification, kept the working area tidy at the end of each day, and reported any incidental defects spotted during the works back to the surveyor for instruction rather than acting outside scope.
05 — OutcomeNine bungalows recovered, asset condition reset and a clean planned-maintenance baseline.
The terrace left the programme with new roof coverings across all nine bungalows, upgraded fascia and barge details, refurbished cast iron rainwater goods and bat boxes installed to the agreed locations. Documentation, warranties and as-built records were issued through Evenii's standard handover pack into the housing association asset file.
Tenants remained in their homes throughout. Access, parking and day-to-day use were managed around the scaffold and the site team rather than the other way round. That is the working test on any occupied social housing programme, and the project met it.
For housing association asset managers, local authority surveyors and planned-maintenance leads across County Durham and the wider North East, the project is on file as evidence of a tenanted, phased roof replacement delivered to specification and signed off against a planned-maintenance brief.
