Tile, ridge, verge and leadwork repair prices from named guides, each with its date and basis, plus what changes a price and how to read a written quote.
Anyone searching for a pitched roof repair price finds numbers that look contradictory. One guide starts its range for a few tiles at £75. Another says repairs average hundreds of pounds. A third quotes a rate per square metre. They can all be right, because they describe different jobs, measured different ways.
This guide lines the figures up so you can see what each one means. Every number comes from a named guide, with its date, and is a typical range for the whole UK. None of them is a price from us, and none is a promise about your roof. Which? places South East jobs high in its ranges, HomeBuilding finds South East labour dearer, and a Kent job can therefore sit near the top of a national range.
Pricing a particular roof means looking at it. We go up, take photos, and only then write the total down. Until then, the figures here are for judging whether a number you have been given is in a sensible region. They sit under our pitched roofing work, which covers repairs as well as re-roofs.
What moves the price of a pitched roof repair
Two repairs that sound the same can cost very different sums, because the work is rarely the tile itself. The labour sits in reaching it, finding the cause and making the fix last. Before reading any figure, it helps to know what lifts a price and what holds it down.
- Access. A single-storey rear slope reached from a ladder is a different job from a third-floor front slope that needs scaffolding. Scaffolding is priced after a survey. A scaffold on the highway needs Kent County Council's licence, which the scaffolder applies for.
- The cause. A slipped tile can be a nail that has rusted through, a batten that has rotted or a gutter that overflowed. Putting back the tile without finding that out only repeats the fault.
- The covering. Natural slate, clay and concrete all repair at different rates, and an old tile that is hard to match takes more finding.
- The extent. A repair that spreads across a whole run of ridge or verge starts to look like part of a re-roof.
- Hidden damage. Once a covering is lifted, wet battens or underlay beneath it can add work that the roof's surface did not show.
None of these shows in a headline figure, which is why the published numbers come as ranges. The range for a few tiles is wide because a few tiles on a bungalow porch and a few tiles on a steep terrace are not the same morning's work.
First comes the survey and your photos, and a single written total follows, set by what the roof needs.
Published prices for common repairs
The table gathers the single-job figures. The units differ between rows, so read each in its own terms.
| Job | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Up to six tiles | £75 to £400, ex VAT | Which?, Nov 2025 |
| Replacing roof tiles | around £215 | MyJobQuote, 06/10/26 |
| An average repair | around £650 in 2026 | MyJobQuote, 06/10/26 |
| One new ridge tile | £80 to £300, ex VAT | Which?, Nov 2025 |
Which? gathers its figures from a survey of 11 Which? Trusted Traders in November 2025. Its prices include labour and materials and exclude VAT. Which? also says the top of its scale is more likely for homes in the South East. MyJobQuote pages give a last-updated date but no VAT basis, so those two rows carry no VAT label here.
The first row covers one to six standard roof tiles that are broken or missing. MyJobQuote's lower figure sits inside that Which? range, which is reassuring, but the two come from different samples and should not be blended into one number.
An average repair of around £650 is a mean across all kinds of repair, including the larger ones. A tile job will usually land below it, and a repair involving valleys, scaffolding or timber will land above. Our page on replacing a single roof tile explains what is actually involved in the smallest job on the list, from lifting the tiles above to checking the batten and the nail beneath it. Even that job is a search for the cause before it is a fix.
Per-square-metre repair rates, and their limit
Checkatrade's repair guide publishes rates of £90 to £220 per m², ex VAT, depending on the covering, in a table last updated in June 2026. Those rates are based on a maximum of 3 m².
| Covering | Rate |
|---|---|
| Concrete tiles | £90 to £120 per m² |
| Clay tiles | £110 to £160 per m² |
| Natural slate | £150 to £220 per m² |
| Ridge tile repairs | £50 to £70 per metre |
That 3 m² limit matters. These rates describe a small patch of up to three square metres. They are not a price per square metre for a whole slope, and nobody should multiply them by the area of a roof. A job big enough to need that arithmetic is a re-roof, and it is priced as one, after a survey.
What the table is useful for is comparison between coverings. In that guide, slate repairs run higher than clay, and clay higher than concrete, per square metre.
Where a roof has more than one covering, say slate on the main slope and a different tile on a porch, each is priced for what it is. It is also worth asking whether a quote is for a repair or for replacing the area, because a patch repair on a tired slope may need to be done again, and the written quote should say which of the two it covers.
Ridge, verge and leadwork repairs
The exposed lines and joints of a pitched roof, the ridge along the top, the verge at the gable edge and the lead around chimneys and valleys, have their own published prices.
- Ridge: MyJobQuote gives a range of £225 to £550 for replacing roof ridge tiles (01/10/26), against Which?'s £80 to £300, ex VAT, to fit one new ridge tile.
- Dry verge: MyJobQuote gives £500 to £2,000 for installing a dry verge system (08/10/26).
- Chimney leadwork: MyJobQuote gives £350 to £920 for replacing the lead on a chimney (22/09/26).
- Valley: MyJobQuote puts replacing a roof valley at around £540 (07/09/26).
The two ridge figures differ because they measure different things. Which? prices a single new ridge tile. MyJobQuote prices a whole ridge replacement. A ridge that has lost its bedding along its length is the second kind of job, not the first.
On these parts the way the work is fixed counts for as much as the material. Marley says the 2015 amendments to BS 5534 ended any reliance on mortar alone to hold the covering down. BS 8612:2018 is the standard for the dry-fixed option on ridge, hip and verge. A quote for a ridge or verge should say whether it is mortar with mechanical fixing alongside or a dry-fix system, because the two are not the same job.
Lead comes in numbered codes, one for each thickness. For chimney and valley work the code is chosen in the specification, not guessed at from street level. Lead flashing can last for over 80 years, MyJobQuote says, which is a lower bound, and it is the reason a leadwork repair is worth doing properly.
Storm damage, emergency call-outs and surveys
When a roof fails in bad weather the sums look different, because the first job is to make the roof safe. MyJobQuote's emergency roofer guide gives call-out costs of £150 to £300 and says extensive storm damage can run to £1,200 or more (22/10/26). The same guide's repair table starts storm repairs at around £300.
Notice the word extensive. The £1,200 figure is for large-scale storm damage, and nobody should read it as the standard price of a storm repair. A few lost tiles after a gale sits near the bottom of the range, and a torn-off section of verge or ridge sits higher.
If the loss is bad enough to call your insurer, the order matters:
- Tell the insurer before anything else.
- Make the roof safe.
- Keep photographs and receipts, which IStructE describes as vital evidence of the damage.
Whether the policy pays depends on its own storm definition and exclusions. The Financial Ombudsman Service lists gradual damage along with wear and tear among the usual exclusions.
A survey is the other upfront cost. For a survey, MyJobQuote gives an average of around £300 (12/10/26). If you are weighing repair against replacement, it is worth asking whether a roofer's survey comes with the quote, as ours does, with photos of your roof.
Roofers' day rates and scaffolding are priced after a survey, and both are folded into the one written total.
Reading a repair quote
A repair quote should be easy to read and hard to misunderstand. Check it for these points before you accept it.
- It describes the repair in plain terms: which slope, which tiles, which part of the ridge or valley.
- It states a single total, with VAT shown and scaffold access covered.
- It says what will be done if the survey missed something, such as a wet batten under a lifted tile.
- It names the fixing method for any ridge or verge work.
- It tells you what waste leaves the site, and who takes it.
Citizens Advice recommends at least 3 written quotes from different traders. When you compare, compare like with like: a quote for refixing three tiles and a quote for stripping and relaying a corner of the slope are different jobs, and the second will cost more for good reason.
It is also fair to ask when repair stops being the better buy. If tiles are slipping across the whole slope, if the battens are soft, or if the same area has been patched before, the repair prices above start to look like deposits on a re-roof. HomeBuilding and Which? give whole-roof ranges for that case, which Which? puts at £7,000 to £21,000 for an average three-bedroom house, ex VAT (Nov 2025), and a repair that keeps recurring can be a sign you are near it.
Our page on tiled roof repairs in winter covers the practical side of getting repairs done in poor weather.
