Hello and Welcome

The aim of this blog is to keep you informed and up to date on whats going on at Derek Lyall's.
Derek.

Monday, 9 May 2011

Spring Time

Well we are now well into spring and memories of the snow and cold have faded away we can look forward to some nicer weather and longer days making our life a little bit easier and a lot more pleasant.



We can build any size extension or sun room, or we could alter the existing space you have making two small rooms into one large room.






Our mascots Tilly & Ilah are all dressed up for the Royal Wedding. Even the rain didn't stop us having a BBQ and this photo even made it on the local BBC news that night along with other photos of the festivities.










Re-felted a flat roof and re-slated the main roof to this house at Stakeford.






Our Brickies made great work in repairing this wall that had been knocked down by a car.








Re-boarded and re-felted this garage and extension flat roof in Darras Hall as well as replacing 3 windows





Cheers for now,
See you next time.
Derek

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

White Out!!!

What a way to end the last few weeks at work before our two week Christmas Holidays.
Having to put up with the snow this last two weeks has been an absolute nightmare.

Lost days at work and difficult conditions have meant not being able to carry out as much work as we would like while on the other hand being inundated with customers needing estimates for the damage the snow has caused to their property!






I must thank all the Roofers, Mark, Jonny, Steve & Ross and the Window Fitters Mark, Steve, Stu and Steve for their efforts in working out in the cold and these afwul conditions, thank you.

 Here you can see the Roofers clearing the drive and pathway of snow to make it safer to walk and work in.
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Here the Roofers are clearing away the snow from the flat roof and slate roofs joining on to it.













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The snow was 15 inches deep at our yard and the vans couldn't get anywhere near so I hired a digger to clear it away.

Friday, 22 October 2010

What a Cold Week!


Just finishing GRP roof at Hazon this week, very old roofs had to use all of skills to re-bed ridge tiles and replace lead valley.















Wood grain fascias, guttering and cladding at Amble looks good now finished.














Started Roofline at Morpeth this week, replacing windows next week then GRP flat roofing system to garage and replacing flat porch roof to pitched and tiled roof.

Transformed a flat living room window in Stobswood into this stunning wood grain on white bow window with new French doors at the rear.

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Cloudy But Dry, That'll Do Nicely!

Alnwick first port of call for the roofers this week for a Topseal GRP flat roof. Forcast cloudy but dry this week so hoping it will last for a few weeks more!
Next in line for the GRP Secialists is this Dormer roof in Wideopen where access is awkward and a scaffold is required not only for safety but to get over the carport as well!

Roof all boarded and trimmed now just cleaning down in preparation for resin and matting.

The Window team is in Amble replacing fascias and gutters to a bungalow in woodgrain plastic fascias and soffits and brown gutters and down-pipes taking off all the old timber fascias.