Roofers in Parkside, Adelaide
Parkside sits directly south of the Parklands between Unley Road and Fullarton Road, with Glen Osmond Road cutting through it toward the foothills. It is a small, tightly built suburb of cottages and bungalows on narrow blocks, with heritage character on most streets and easy access to the CBD.
What usually goes wrong on Parkside roofs
- Corrugated iron on cottage roofs rusting where old lean-to additions meet the main roof
- Ridge capping mortar cracked on terracotta bungalows after hot summers and clay movement
- Rusted and blocked gutters under mature street trees overflowing onto verandah roofs
- Skillion roofs on rear extensions with too little fall, ponding and leaking at the laps
- Flashings failing around chimneys and later-added whirlybirds and skylights
Local notes from the roofers
Parkside's blocks are narrow and the houses sit close together, which changes how a roof job is set up before anyone looks at what is leaking. Many of the 1890s cottages here have had a lean-to or skillion added at the back at some point, and the junction where a low-pitched addition meets the original iron roof is where most water gets in: the flashing was often a strip of iron bent by hand, and the addition has too little fall for a heavy front off Gulf St Vincent. The bungalows on the eastern side toward Fullarton Road are terracotta tiled and share the inner suburbs' ridge mortar problem, made worse on this side by the clay shifting under footings each winter. Street trees along the avenues off Glen Osmond Road drop enough leaf litter to block a gutter in a season, and the overflow lands on the verandah roof and rusts it. Ladder access from the side of the house is often the only option, so edge protection and roof anchors are planned around fences and carports. Heritage character rules apply to most frontages.
Housing and roof types in Parkside
Small-scale inner suburb of 1890s to 1920s cottages, villas and bungalows under corrugated iron and terracotta tiles, with pockets of 1960s and 70s flats along Glen Osmond Road and Greenhill Road and newer townhouses on the Unley Road side.
