“The roof was stripped, re-slated and handed back before the first teacher was on site. The paperwork arrived before the scaffolding did, and the photographic record went straight to our governors.”
CONDITION REPORT — THE FIRM ITSELF · SHEET 01 OF 08 · ISSUED 19.08.2026
BELLHOUSERoofing Contractors — Rotherham
Roofers to schools, public estates and Rotherham homes since 1958 — filed here the way we file every job: measured, dated, photographed and signed off.
- ESTABLISHED1958
- GENERATIONSTHREE
- FLEETFOURTEEN VANS
- BASEROTHERHAM, S. YORKSHIRE
- COVER£10M PUBLIC LIABILITY
1958
2026
68 YEARS AT THE SAME TRADE — MEASURED, NOT REMEMBERED
Request a surveySITE RECORD — SCAFFOLD SQUARE TO THE GATES
SHEET 02 · SCHEDULE OF WORKSPRICED FROM MEASUREMENT
Schedule of Works
Eight lines of work, listed the way we price them. A homeowner will find a slipped slate in here; an estates manager will find a framework. The descriptions are written the way our surveys are — plain English, no ornament.
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SoW 1.1
Slate and tile re-roofing
Full strip and re-cover in natural slate or tile — slate and tile re-roofing across Rotherham, from terrace rows to school halls. Sound coverings are salvaged and re-hung where they will still serve.
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SoW 2.1
Single-ply and built-up flat roof systems
Commercial flat roofing in Rotherham and across South Yorkshire — single-ply membranes and built-up systems laid to falls, with every upstand and outlet detailed, not draped.
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SoW 3.2
Leadwork and parapet gutters
Code 5 lead dressed by hand into parapet gutters, valleys and flashings — leadwork and parapet gutters are the details that decide whether a roof lasts thirty years or three.
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SoW 4.1
Cast-iron rainwater goods
Cast-iron gutters and downpipes repaired, re-jointed or replaced like for like — the right answer on listed buildings and the honest one on everything else.
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SoW 5.1
Roof condition surveys and dilapidation reports
A roof condition survey in Rotherham means a dated inspection with photographs and a written report — what is sound, what is not, and what it needs. No opinions from the pavement.
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SoW 6.1
Planned maintenance contracts
Planned roof maintenance in Rotherham and across whole portfolios — gutters cleared, slipped coverings re-fixed, every visit logged, dated and reported back.
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SoW 7.1
Make-safe attendance for estates teams
Storm and emergency damage made weathertight and safe, then recorded with dated photographs for your file and your insurer.
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SoW 8.1
Roof access and safety line installation
Safety lines, anchors and access equipment installed, tested and documented — so the next trade on the roof is as safe as ours.
PRICING — FROM A MEASURED SCHEDULE OF WORKS, NOT A WALKOVER
SHEET 03 · PROGRAMME RECORDSUMMER RECESS — SIX WEEKS
The August Roof
“School and public estate frameworks” is easy to say. This is what it looks like: one school re-roof recorded across the six weeks of the summer holiday — the programme our work as school roofing contractors across South Yorkshire runs to. The playground empties, the scaffold goes up, and the roof is handed back before the first bell.
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WK 1 — STRIP-OFF & SURVEY
Old coverings lifted and the timbers opened up and surveyed while the building stands empty.
SoW 1.1 — EXISTING SLATES LIFTED & LOGGED
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WK 2 — GUTTER LININGS
Parapet gutters lined and laid to falls — the part nobody sees and everybody depends on.
SoW 3.2 — LININGS LAID TO FALLS
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WK 3 — LEADWORK
Code 5 lead dressed by hand at every junction. Lead is soft, dull and quietly outlasts everything fixed above it.
CODE 5 LEAD — DRESSED BY HAND
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WK 4 — MEMBRANE & BATTENS
Membrane lapped, battens set to gauge with a string line. Straight lines now mean straight courses later.
SoW 1.1 — BATTENS SET TO GAUGE
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WK 5 — FINAL COURSE
New slate closes against hundred-year-old stone. If the junction is right, nobody will look at it for another century.
NEW SLATE AGAINST 100-YEAR STONE
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WK 6 — SNAGGING & HANDOVER Snags in progress, scaffold active, every stage photographed. The roof goes back before the first teacher does. RECORD PHOTOGRAPHED — HANDED BACK BEFORE TERM -
CONDITION REPORT — HANDOVER COPY
Handed to the estates team before term starts
- Dated photographic record
- Written guarantees
- Planned maintenance schedule
SHEET 04 · TENDER FILEAUDITED BEFORE APPOINTMENT
The Framework File
The paperwork a school or council reads before we are allowed near a roof — kept current, dated, and open for inspection. Public estate roofing frameworks are the strictest reference a roofing contractor in Rotherham can hold.
FILE — FRAMEWORK & TENDERCONTENTS · 6 ITEMS · HELD CURRENT 08.2026
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ITEM 01 — INSURANCE
£10,000,000 public liability cover, in force and evidenced on request.
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ITEM 02 — RAMS
Method statements and risk assessments issued before work starts — on every job, not just the audited ones.
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ITEM 03 — PRICING
Quotations priced from a measured schedule of works, never from a walkover.
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ITEM 04 — HANDOVER
A dated photographic record and condition report handed over on completion.
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ITEM 05 — PROGRAMMING
Works planned around term times and occupied buildings, and held to programme.
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ITEM 06 — MAINTENANCE
Planned maintenance contracts held across school and public estate portfolios, every visit logged.
What this means if the roof is on your house
Before a school or council lets a contractor onto an occupied building, this file is audited: insurance verified, method statements read, programmes checked against term dates. Bellhouse keeps it current because our framework work depends on it.
When we quote for a Rotherham terrace or a semi, the same file stands behind the job. None of it was written specially for schools — it is simply how the firm works, and you inherit all of it with your slipped slate.
SHEET 05 · SITE DIARYENTRIES — 1958 TO DATE
Entries Since 1958
Sixty-eight years, entered the way a clerk of works would enter them. Not a heritage story — a running record.
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1958
First ladder in Rotherham. The name goes on the side of a van and the first slates are re-hung.
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1974
First council estate contract. The firm learns to price from a measured schedule, and never unlearns it.
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1991
The second generation signs the books. Same yard, same trade, more paper.
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2009
The fourteenth van joins the fleet. Every one racked the same way.
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2024
The third generation is on the tools, dressing lead the way the first was taught.
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2026
Sixty-eighth August at the same trade. The current entry is this file.
SHEET 06 · COMPLETION RECORDSIGN-OFFS ON FILE
Signed Off
We don’t call ourselves the best roofing contractor in Rotherham. We file the sign-offs, date them, and let the record read as it stands.
“Their condition surveys drop into our planned maintenance programme without rework — measured, dated, photographed. It is the standard we hold every framework contractor to; they set it.”
“Two slipped slates and a leaking valley. They photographed everything, quoted in writing, and did the work in the week they said they would. No drama at any point.”
RECORD — GOOGLE REVIEWS41 ENTRIES / 4.6 OF 5.0
SURVEY PHOTO — MARKED FOR ACTION
SHEET 07 · DOMESTIC WORKSROOFS LIKE YOURS
A Slipped Slate on Your Roof
Most of our diary is schools and public estates. The rest is roofs like yours — surveyed, quoted and finished to the same file, by the same roofers Rotherham’s schools and councils audit.
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Survey
We get on the roof and photograph what we find. You receive a dated roof condition survey — not an opinion shouted from the pavement.
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Written quote
A written quotation priced from what was measured. You can hold us to it, because none of it was guessed.
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Works to programme
The job is done to the agreed programme, guaranteed in writing, and left with a photographic record for your own file — backed by a firm at the same trade since 1958.
Request a survey
SAME FILE. SMALLER ROOF.
SHEET 08 · CLOSING ACTIONONE ACTION — STATED ONCE
Request a Survey
Tell us about the roof and we will come and measure it. The survey is dated and photographed — then the decision is yours.
ACTION — SURVEY REQUESTRESPONSE — BOOKED WITHIN 5 WORKING DAYS