Most tiled roof repairs are small jobs. A few slipped tiles, a cracked piece over the porch, ridge tiles whose mortar has crumbled. The price range is wide because the same-looking fault can sit on a bungalow you can reach from a ladder or on a three-storey terrace that needs a scaffold tower and a day of carrying.
This guide gathers the typical UK ranges from MyBuilder and Checkatrade (both used here purely as published cost sources, 2026 editions), explains what each figure covers, and then turns to the things that push a Stroud job above or below the national line. Those are access on steep lanes, scaffold, and the difficulty of finding tiles that match an older roof. None of the figures below is a Supreme Roofing price. Our own figure comes after the survey, written up for the whole job. If you are still deciding between a repair and a new covering, our answer on patch repair or re-tile deals with that choice; this page only prices the repair side. The wider service is on our pitched roofing page.
The overall range for repairing a tiled roof
MyBuilder's roof repair cost guide (updated August 2026) puts a typical roof repair at £150 to £1,500. It splits the work into bands. Minor repairs sit around £100 to £300, moderate repairs around £500 to £1,000, and major repairs start at about £2,500. Storm-damage fixes are quoted at £500 to £1,500.
A minor repair is a handful of tiles refixed or replaced where a ladder reaches. A moderate repair usually means a larger area, a ridge run, or work that needs a scaffold tower. A major repair is a slope with failing battens or a structural fault, and at that point the question becomes whether to repair at all.
A repair price is mostly a price for getting safely to the fault. The tiles themselves are often the smallest part of the cost.
What sits inside a repair price
A repair is built from the same parts as any roofing job, just fewer of them: a survey or inspection, access, materials, labour and clearing away. MyBuilder gives a roofer's day rate of £250 to £300, which is a useful way to judge the labour element of a small job. Waste from a tile repair is light, but it is still cleared.
A separate inspection is sometimes worthwhile before a larger repair. MyBuilder's inspection guide lists a standard roof survey at £150 to £250, with drone surveys at £200 to £400. On a roof where the fault is not obvious from the ground, paying for a proper look first can stop money being spent on the wrong patch.
Slipped and cracked tiles: single tiles and small areas
The smallest repair on a tiled roof is the single tile. Our answer on slipped roof tiles explains why tiles move; the pricing logic is simple. A slipped tile on a roof with sound battens and tile clips is often refixed rather than replaced, and a cracked tile is lifted out and a matching one slid into its place. The time is small, so the job usually falls at the lower end of the minor band, provided the roofer is already on the roof or you are grouping several small faults together.
Why small jobs cost more per tile than large ones
A roofer arriving to fix three tiles still sets up safely, climbs, inspects the area around the fault and clears up. Those fixed costs are spread over very little material. Grouping known faults into one visit, such as a cracked tile, a loose ridge end and a slipped hip tile, makes better use of the same set-up.
Per square metre for larger patches
When a patch grows from a few tiles to a section of slope, repair is priced by area. Checkatrade's roof repair cost guide (updated June 2026) gives concrete tile repairs at £90 to £120 per m² and clay tile repairs at £110 to £160 per m², ex VAT, with access excluded. Natural slate is higher at £150 to £220 per m². Those figures describe labour and materials for re-laying an area of the existing covering. They do not include scaffold, which is extra.
Our guide to clay and concrete roof tiles sets the two materials side by side.
Ridges, hips and verges
Along the apex of the roof runs the ridge; a hip is the sloping line at the outer corner of a hipped roof, and the verge is the sloping rake of a gable end where the roof stops. These are the details most exposed to wind, and the ones most likely to need work on an otherwise sound roof.
MyBuilder's slate roof cost guide gives £300 to £600 for taking ridge tiles off and bedding them again or fitting new ones, and £200 to £400 to repoint a ridge or hip run. Dry-fix is the alternative, holding ridge tiles with mechanical clips and a vented strip rather than a bed of mortar. MyBuilder's dry ridge guide shows £40 to £60 per metre, with a typical job of £500 to £1,000. Checkatrade's repair guide is a little higher, at £50 to £70 per metre for dry ridge and £70 to £100 per metre for dry hip, ex VAT.
Why the method matters to the price
BS 5534 (2014 revision) stopped treating mortar by itself as a sufficient hold on ridge and hip pieces, so each one gets a mechanical fixing too. So a ridge that has simply been re-pointed and a ridge that has been taken off and fixed again in line with the standard are different jobs at different prices. When a ridge quote is much lower than the ranges above, ask what fixing it includes.
Scaffold on ridge work
Ridge and hip repairs often need edge protection because the roofer works along the top of the roof. A long ridge on a detached house can justify a scaffold on its own. If the same visit also deals with slipped tiles and a flashing, the scaffold cost is shared across all of them, which is another reason to bundle repairs.
Valleys, flashings and battens
Where two slopes form an inward corner, the gutter-like channel between them is the valley. It carries a lot of water and is often lined with lead or a manufactured trough. Our guide to pitched roof types shows where valleys occur. What a valley repair costs depends on whether the job is re-dressing a lead lining or rebuilding the courses beside it. We price valleys on survey.
Lead flashings and soakers
Flashings are the strips of lead that seal at the points where slope meets chimney, wall or roof window, and soakers are the small lead pieces that sit under each course of tiles beside an abutment. MyJobQuote (updated September 2026) puts a chimney flashing patch at £150 to £250. Checkatrade's repair guide gives lead flashing repairs at £50 to £70 per metre and stepped flashing at £80 to £120 per metre for Code 5 lead, ex VAT. Stepped flashing costs more because every step is cut, dressed and tucked into the brickwork or stonework individually.
Rotten or loose battens
Battens are the timber strips the tiles hang from. If a repair exposes rotten battens, the job changes from a tile repair to a timber repair. We lift the surrounding tiles, replace the battens and re-lay, and the cost is then the area rate above plus the timber. See our answer on rotten roof battens for how to spot the problem. We do not know how much batten work a roof needs until the tiles come off, so a quote can say what is included and what happens if more is found.
What adds cost in Stroud: access, scaffold and hillside working
National ranges assume a roof you can get to. Stroud and the surrounding valleys do not always offer that. Terraced hillsides, steep lanes, and houses set back behind retaining walls all change how a roofer works. Our piece on steep streets and scaffold covers the practicalities; the pricing effect is simple.
Scaffold
Checkatrade's roof replacement guide gives scaffold at £700 to £1,300, and MyBuilder's re-roof guide uses about £1,125. Those are whole-house figures. For a repair, the scaffold is the largest single variable. A fault that a ladder or tower reaches avoids it entirely; a repair high on a gable end of a tall house may need a full lift. MyBuilder's gutter and fascia guide quotes scaffold at £20 to £40 per m² of elevation for smaller runs.
Delivery and carrying
If a van cannot stop outside, tiles, battens and lead are carried by hand, and that takes time. At the survey we walk the approach and price the carrying into the quote.
Parking and neighbours
On a terrace, a scaffold may cross a neighbour's boundary or occupy a pavement, which can mean a council permit. The quote names any such permit, as it affects time and cost.
Matching old tiles and what that does to the price
Repair prices assume the replacement tile is available. On a roof from the middle of the last century onwards, a modern equivalent from a current range is usually within reach. On older clay roofs it is not so simple. Hand-made tiles vary in colour, camber and size, and a new machine-made tile beside them shows. Our answer on matching old clay tiles goes through the options.
Reclaimed tiles
Reclaimed tiles from a salvage yard are often the best colour match for an old roof, but they cost more per tile and take time to source, and each batch needs sorting. A repair that depends on salvage can become a small search project. The sensible route is to say so in the quote and, where a tile cannot be found, to suggest swapping sound tiles from a rear slope onto the front and putting new ones out of sight.
Like for like
On older roofs we keep to like-for-like materials: clay stays clay, and a concrete tile is not fitted to a roof where it would look wrong or add weight the timbers were never built for. If a repair would increase the weight of the covering by 15 per cent or more, the Planning Portal says Building Regulations approval is needed; that is another reason to check before swapping materials.
Should your house be listed or lie in a conservation area, ask the council's planning team about materials first. The tile you choose may matter more than the repair itself.
Getting a repair price you can compare
Because repair work is small, the quotes people receive vary in what they include. A fair comparison needs the same scope in every quote.
What a repair quote should cover
After a survey, ours covers scaffold or access, materials, labour, waste and making good. Photographs of your own roof, taken at the survey, show what is being quoted for. That makes it possible to compare us against another roofer on the same scope. If someone else's quote gives one figure with no description, ask what it covers.
Questions to ask any roofer
- Does the figure include scaffold or access, and what type?
- Are the replacement tiles matched, and from where?
- Are ridge and hip tiles mechanically fixed?
- What happens if rotten battens are found under the tiles?
- Is waste taken away, and is the roof left clean?
Guarantee and VAT
Our repair work carries a 10-year workmanship guarantee, in writing. Repairs carry VAT at 20 per cent, and the quote shows it. The Checkatrade figures above exclude VAT, while the MyBuilder figures are quoted as published, so allow for 20 per cent when comparing the two.
When you are ready, send us photographs of the fault and your address and we will arrange a survey. Dealing with a slipped tile early makes it less likely to grow into a moderate repair.