Commercial roofing has a wide gap between the firms that specify a roof and the firms that simply price one — and that gap is exactly where a facilities manager gets caught. The hardest part of a re-roof is rarely finding a roofer; it is the pile of quotes on the desk, three numbers for the “same” roof, thousands apart, with no honest way to tell which is comparing like with like. This service exists to sit on your side of that gap. We are not a roofing contractor and we do not claim to be. We are a quote-comparison and specifier service: we help you get every commercial roofing quote surveyed, itemised and set out against a common checklist, then connect you with NFRC-accredited, manufacturer-approved installers to carry out the work.
The honest position underneath everything we do is simple. A commercial roof is procured, not bought off a shelf, and the cheapest number on the page is very often the one that hides the fault. Our job is to make the numbers mean the same thing, across every commercial roof system, so the decision you take to your board is defensible.
What we actually do — and what we do not
We do not send you a rate per square metre down the phone, because an honest rate cannot be known without a survey. Instead, we take the building type, the roof size and what the roof is doing now, arrange a condition survey, and set out repair, refurbishment and replacement options side by side — with the system, the falls, the U-value, the guarantee type and term, the access plan and the exclusions all on the page. Then you can finally compare quotes like with like. We cover the full range of commercial roof systems, not one membrane: industrial cladding and re-cladding, commercial flat roofing, pitched slate, tile and metal, refurbishment and over-roofing, gutter lining and roof coatings.
What we will not do is sell you an overlay that hides a wet deck, or let a headline price stand in for a specification. That is the difference between a quote and a guess, and it is set out in full on our how it works page and our quote myths page.
Why quotes for the same roof differ by 40%
The gap between quotes is almost never the price of the work — it is the scope. One firm strips a wet deck and rebuilds a warm deck to a Part L U-value under a 25-year single-point manufacturer guarantee; another overlays the existing roof, leaves the condensation problem in place, and offers a workmanship promise. The headline numbers look comparable and the work behind them is not. A commercial roof is read from the deck up: what the deck already carries, what it will be asked to carry, how the water leaves, and where the warm, moist air inside the building ends up. A quote that is silent on those is a rate, not a specification, and two such rates cannot be compared. We make sure yours are.
The accredited-installer model, honestly
We want to be plain about how this works, because the roofing trade is full of firms implying accreditations they do not hold. This business does not claim to be a member of any scheme. Instead, we connect you with installers who are themselves CompetentRoofer-registered and NFRC-accredited, prequalified through health-and-safety schemes such as CHAS and SafeContractor, and working to SPRA-referenced and LRWA-referenced specifications where they apply. The distinction matters for two reasons. First, competence is verifiable: where the installer is CompetentRoofer-registered, they can self-certify the re-roof against the Building Regulations and issue a Building Regulations Compliance Certificate — the document you need at a sale, a lease event or an insurance review — instead of a separate Local Authority Building Control application. Second, the guarantee is real: a single-point or insurer-backed manufacturer guarantee is issued because a manufacturer-approved installer fitted the system to specification, so it stands independently of whether any one firm is still trading. Our accreditations and guarantees pages set out exactly what the network holds, and what those guarantees do and do not cover.
Whole-life cost, not the lowest headline
The framing we put to your board is whole-life cost, not the capital line on its own. A life-expired roof patched reactively typically costs more over a ten-year horizon than a planned re-roof or re-clad carrying a manufacturer guarantee measured in decades — before you count the business-interruption cost of a single major ingress: ruined stock, a closed aisle, a lost trading or teaching day. Where budget timing is the constraint, the works can be phased across financial years by roof area. We build that comparison for you and give you the repair, refurbish and replace numbers side by side, with honest costs and remaining-life estimates. On funding we are equally straight: there is no general grant that re-roofs a commercial building, and any site advertising a “roofing grant” should be treated with suspicion. The legitimate angles are tax treatment — 20% VAT recovery and capital allowances on qualifying insulation — as set out on our funding notes.
Coverage across the UK
We work with building owners, facilities and estates teams, procurement leads and school and MAT business managers on commercial roofs across the UK, from a 200 m² office deck to a warehouse roof beyond 20,000 m². The common thread is that each roof is surveyed and specified individually; nothing is quoted blind from a floor area and a postcode. If you are holding quotes you cannot read, or facing a leak, a dilapidations schedule, an insurer condition or a stalled solar project, send us the roof and we will get you quotes you can actually compare.