Traditional roofing • honest opinions • life on the tools

Maidstone_
Roofer

Twenty-plus years on roofs, a phone in my pocket, and apparently people like watching it.

This isn’t a company website. It’s just my bit of the internet.

SLATE • PLAIN TILE • PEG TILE • LEADWORK • HERITAGE • VALLEYS • RIDGES • ROOFING OPINIONS • TOOLS •

Who is Maidstone_Roofer?

I’m Dennis. I’ve been doing this long enough to have an opinion on most of it.

I started posting roofing because I enjoyed showing the details most people never see — awkward cuts, old roofs, valleys, leadwork, jobs that go wrong and the little tricks that make them go right.

Somewhere along the way, people started following it. So this site is less about selling roofing and more about keeping the best bits in one place.

Old-school doesn’t mean stuck in the past.

The work

The roofs are the point.

Maidstone_Roofer branded workwear on a slate roof — On the roof. Where the account started.

Slate roof with mitred hips — Natural slate and proper hip details.

Handmade plain tile swept hip — Plain tile work — the detail matters.

Old handmade tiled valley — Old tiles, awkward valley, exactly the sort of thing I like.

Traditional tile valley detail — Traditional valley detail.

Roofer working on tiled roof — Still on the tools.

Traditional stone building with tiled roof and copper rainwater goods — Old buildings deserve details that belong on them.

Slate roof in progress — Slate, lead and the awkward bits.

Traditional timber building with tiled roof — Traditional roofing in context.

Roofer working high on a tiled roof — A normal day, basically.

Close-up of traditional tile detail — The stuff most people walk past without noticing.

Watch

The stuff people actually followed for.

Roofing, tools, opinions, cock-ups, fixes and the odd bit of messing about. No polished corporate bollocks.

Tools

Stuff I actually use.

Not a shop full of random products. Just the kit people keep asking me about. Affiliate links can sit here quietly without turning the site into QVC.

01Malco cuttersLink coming → 02Burners & torchesLink coming → 03Roofing hand toolsLink coming → 04What I’m using nowLink coming →

Elsewhere

Awards, interviews & things that escaped Instagram.

Roofer of the Year 2024

On The Tools Awards.

Trade interviews

Features about the work, the trade and why I still enjoy doing it properly.

Social & video

Instagram, TikTok and older YouTube clips — all under Maidstone_Roofer.

Follow along

If you like roofs, you’re probably already here for the right reason.

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