Retail Unit Roofing & Cladding

Keeping premises weathertight and presentable, installed with minimal disruption to trading hours and footfall.

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Retail Unit

Retail premises can't afford lengthy closures, so roofing and cladding work has to be planned around trading hours and customer footfall.

Retail unit roofing and cladding needs to balance weathertightness and appearance with minimal disruption to an active trading environment. Our retail and trade projects include a canoe shop re-roofed while it traded, a 1980s builders merchants re-clad as modern trade units, and repeat work at a busy museum.

  • Trading Around YouWork scheduled around opening hours and footfall to protect trade.
  • Presentable FinishRoofing and cladding systems chosen for both performance and appearance.
  • Kept OpenA shop and a museum worked around while they stayed open.
Retail unit roof and cladding

Retail and trade premises we have worked on

Shops, trade counters and visitor attractions usually have to keep their doors open to customers while the roof is replaced.

At The Canoe Shop in Totton, an ageing twin skin roof with suspected asbestos cement outer sheets was removed as non-licensed, non-notifiable work. We fitted around 577 m² of insulated composite roof with factory-assembled roof lights and relined the internal valley gutters, with bespoke colour-matched flashings and trims, on a restricted site while the business carried on. The new roof kept the original footprint, and the gutter on the shared boundary was relined too.

Bridgwater Trade Park was a very tired 1980s builders merchants, brought back into use as trade counter and warehouse units. The cladding, roof lights and insulation were stripped and replaced with Tata Trisomet composite, after new eaves beams squared off the original curved eaves. Brett Martin roof lights went in throughout, and a two-tone colour scheme was set out across both buildings and every bay.

At the Haynes International Motor Museum, a repeat client, our work has covered new buildings, extensions and roof refurbishments across 1970s, 1980s and new build areas, planned around a museum that stays open to visitors. The systems there include standing seam and double skin roofs, Euroclad Elite and Vieo, Trimo composite panels, structural roof decking on cold-rolled steel purlins, and insulated valley gutters with linings.

Retail projects.

Full write-ups for Tapstone Road and the Canoe Shop, with photographs and specifications.

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Accredited, approved and audited

  • NFRC
  • RIDBA
  • Constructionline Gold
  • SafeContractor
  • Euroclad
  • Tata Steel
  • Filon
  • Joris Ide
  • PowellGee
  • Kingspan
  • Brett Martin

FAQs

Retail roofing questions

If your question is not answered here, call the estimating team on 01305 770433.

Can roofing work be carried out without closing the shop?

In most cases, yes. We plan retail projects around your trading hours, phasing work or scheduling out-of-hours where needed to keep the unit open to customers.

Do retail units built before the 1990s often contain asbestos cement roofing?

Yes, particularly older retail parks and trade counters. We carry out non-licensed, non-notifiable removal of asbestos cement roofing and cladding as part of many retail refurbishment projects.

Does the roofing system affect how the shopfront looks?

It can. Systems such as standing seam or secret fix give a cleaner, more contemporary finish, which we can factor in alongside performance requirements during the survey.

Can you repair a leak without disrupting customers?

Yes. Many retail roofing issues can be resolved with targeted repairs such as gutter linings or localised sheet replacement, scheduled to avoid busy trading periods.

Do you work on new build retail developments?

Yes. We work with developers and principal contractors on new build retail projects, delivering complete roofing and cladding envelope systems from design through to installation.

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Green Lane, Chickerell
Weymouth, Dorset DT3 4GG