New Roofs Lucan

A roof replacement is one of the most critical structural investments you will ever make in your home.

When recurring leaks become constant, when slates or tiles constantly slide out of position, or when 40-year-old underlay turns to dust, repeated patch repairs are simply throwing good money after bad.

At AD Roofing, we install high-performance new roofs across Lucan designed to protect your home for decades.

Led personally by Augustine Doherty, our team handles the entire replacement process from start to finish—strip-out, timber repairs, breathable membranes, precision tiling, and leadwork. Every new roof we build comes with our solid 15-year written guarantee.

Lucan contains thousands of homes constructed during the rapid residential expansion of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Many of these original roofs are now reaching the absolute end of their design lifespan:

• Brittle & Torn Bitumen Felt (Hillcrest, Dodsboro, Esker):

  Homes built in the 1970s and 80s were fitted with traditional black bitumen felt under the tiles. After 40+ years in an uninsulated or poorly ventilated attic space, this felt has become completely brittle and torn to shreds. Once wind-driven rain gets past an aged tile, there is zero secondary barrier left to protect your ceiling plaster.

• Severe Nail Sickness & Degraded Battens (Old Lucan, Period Properties):

  Older slate properties along the village core frequently suffer from "nail sickness," where original galvanised nails corrode completely. The slates slide out of alignment en masse, and timber battens rot beyond the point where individual slates can be re-nailed securely.

• Porous & Spalling Concrete Tiles (Airlie Heights, St. Finian's):

  Early concrete interlocking tiles lose their waterproof protective glaze after three to four decades of weathering. They absorb moisture like a sponge, leading to frost spalling (the tile surface flaking and crumbling) and heavy internal moss retention that weighs down the roof structure.

• Failed Celtic Tiger Valleys & Flashings (Ballyowen, Foxborough, Griffeen):

  Many 1990s developments were thrown up at speed using cheap lead substitutes or cut-rate valley liners that have split down the centre. Where patch fixes have failed repeatedly, stripping the valley flanks and re-roofing with modern dry-fix systems is the only permanent solution.

This is the section most competitor quotes leave deliberately vague, so we won't. Every full re-roof includes breathable membrane underlay rather than legacy bitumen felt, which traps condensation against the timber and accelerates rot from the inside out.

It includes correctly spaced and treated battens, replaced in full rather than reused where the old ones merely look salvageable.

Where the roof profile allows it, we fit dry ridge and dry verge systems as standard — mechanical fixings instead of mortar bedding, which removes the cracking-and-repointing cycle mortar ridges go through every few Dublin winters.

New lead flashing goes in at every chimney, valley, and wall abutment, since reused old flashing is one of the most common causes of a "new roof, still leaking" callback from other installers' work. And the job finishes with full site clearance — skip, scaffold takedown, and a swept site, not just the roof itself.

If you are planning a roof replacement or want a straight, honest answer on whether your roof needs a repair or a full overhaul, speak directly to Augustine today.