Roofers in Findon, Adelaide
Findon is an established inland suburb of the City of Charles Sturt between Grange Road and the River Torrens, close enough to the coast to feel the sea breeze but sheltered from the worst of the salt. Its flat blocks of postwar homes are steadily being redeveloped into units and townhouses.
What usually goes wrong on Findon roofs
- Concrete tiles at sixty years old with surface erosion, cracks from antenna and solar installers and no remaining ridge mortar
- Cracked pointing and gutters out of fall on the eastern side where the soil turns to reactive clay
- Painted tile roofs where the coating hides cracked bedding that was never rebedded
- Box gutters on unit developments blocking with leaves from the street trees along Grange Road
- Terracotta tiles cracked by foot traffic on the earlier bungalows
Local notes from the roofers
Findon sits a few kilometres inland from the coast, far enough to escape the worst of the salt but not the wind. Most of the suburb went up in the 1950s and 60s as brick and brick veneer homes under concrete or terracotta tiles, with a scatter of earlier bungalows near Grange Road and a good number of Housing Trust homes that have already been re-roofed at least once. The concrete tiles are now well past their expected life, with surface erosion, cracked tiles from antenna and solar installers, and ridge capping that has lost its mortar to sixty summers of heat. The soil here shifts from coastal sand toward heavier clay as you head east, so homes near Findon Road show more of the cracked pointing and gutters out of fall that come with footing movement. Many roofs have been painted at some stage without the ridges being rebedded, and the coating is now hiding cracked bedding rather than fixing it. Unit developments and townhouses from the 1990s onward use Colorbond and box gutters that block with leaves from the street trees along Grange Road.
Housing and roof types in Findon
Mostly 1950s and 60s brick and brick veneer homes under concrete and terracotta tiles, including a good number of former Housing Trust houses, with a few earlier bungalows near Grange Road and 1990s onward unit and townhouse developments under Colorbond.
