Everything above you.
Pitched, flat and heritage roofing across South-East Queensland. Scaffold, not ladders. Photographs before and after, every job.
The decision that costs more on every quote.
Ridgeback could work off ladders on smaller jobs, the way plenty of roofers do, and undercut its own quotes by leaving the scaffold out. Twenty-two years ago the firm decided not to, on the grounds that a ladder is how roofers get hurt and it puts the work itself at an awkward angle that shows in the finish.
The scaffold is priced separately on every quote so the cost of that decision is never hidden in the total. Two crews, both directly employed, work to the same rule whether it is a single chimney repair or a full re-roof.
Three kinds of roof.
If it keeps the weather out, we work on it.
Pitched roofing
Re-roofs, strip and re-tile, and repairs in slate, clay and concrete. Full scaffold on every job.
Flat roofing
Single-ply, GRP and torch-on felt with a twenty-year guarantee. We do not patch a roof that needs replacing.
Leadwork and heritage
Valleys, flashings, parapets and heritage work, to Australian Standards detail.
What happens next
A survey with photographs
We go up and photograph it. You see what we see, not a verbal description.
A written quote
Itemised, with the scaffold priced separately so you know what it costs.
The work, then photographs again
Before and after, and the site left clean.
Scaffold on every job.
Two crews, fully insured, and we do not work off ladders.
“Three quotes. Two wanted to patch it. Ridgeback showed me photographs of the battens and explained why patching was throwing money away.”
— Chris D., full re-roof
Book a roof survey
We will go up, photograph it, and tell you honestly whether it needs doing this year.