Most repair calls come down to a short list. A leak that showed up in the last big rain, ridge caps that have moved, tiles cracked by somebody walking them, or fascia gone soft behind the gutter. We find out which one it is before we put a price on it.
A wet patch on your ceiling almost never sits directly under the thing that is leaking. Water gets in at a broken tile or a lifted cap, tracks along a batten or a rafter, and drops through wherever it feels like. Which is why guessing at it from inside the house wastes everybody's afternoon.
So we get on the roof and look properly. Broken and slipped tiles, ridge caps that have lost their pointing, valleys packed with leaf litter, flashings pulled away, and the timber behind the gutter line. That photo is what a slow leak does to a rafter end once it has been wet long enough.
A gutter that holds water, has rusted through or was hung at the wrong fall pushes water back under the tiles and into the timber. Fixing the roof and walking past the gutter is half a job, so we look at both while we are up there and tell you honestly if only one of them needs money spent on it.
Sometimes the answer is a clean out and a re-hang. Sometimes it is new gutter and downpipe. Either way it gets measured and quoted with the roof work, on the same sheet of paper, so you are not comparing two quotes from two trades to work out what your house needs.
Roof repairs are not mysterious. Most of what goes wrong on a Perth roof is one of these, and each one has its own fix and its own price.
Cracked by weather, by a branch, or by somebody walking the roof in the wrong spot. Cheap to put right, expensive to leave.
The mortar along the ridge and hip caps breaks up, water gets in behind the caps, and the bedding underneath starts to give way.
Leaf litter packs the valley, water banks up over the tile line and finds a way in. Often a clear out plus a look at the valley iron underneath.
Around chimneys, vents, skylights and anywhere the roof meets a wall. Flashings that were patched rather than replaced are a common find.
Rust, the wrong fall, or timber behind the gutter that has been wet long enough to go soft. Usually invisible until it is not.
Wind lifting caps and sheets, debris cracking tiles. Photograph it before anything gets touched if you plan to claim on insurance.
Whichever it turns out to be, you get told what it is and what it costs to fix before anybody picks up a tool.
Repairs get priced per job, because a repair can be one tile or it can be twenty metres of ridge capping. What we can publish are the jobs with a known shape. Ridge capping re-bedded and re-pointed runs $1,200 to $3,000. A full high pressure roof clean runs $800 to $2,000. A full restoration on a three to four bedroom home runs $4,000 to $9,000. Your repair gets a written, itemised number after the free onsite look, and Midland is not priced any differently to the rest of Perth.
If the repair list keeps growing every winter, the sums usually tip towards a restoration. We will tell you when that line has been crossed instead of quietly billing you for the same roof three years running.
Worth knowing about before you decide how far to take it.
"Mati and Ryan did a fantastic job and I can't believe how wonderful my roof looks! Tiles replaced, ridge capping repaired, painted and sealed, plus extra jobs done at the last minute!"
"Awesome job. Great at communications and really looks after his clients. Rare to find people who will do their job and provide proper support these days. Killi is definitely one of them."
"Mati and his team did a great job on my roof. He was so busy but promised he would have it done by Christmas and he did. So happy with his work. Would highly recommend this company."
Both. Not every roof needs the full job and we say so when it does not. A leak, a handful of broken tiles, ridge capping that has moved or storm damage are ordinary days for us.
That is the whole point of the free onsite assessment. Somebody gets on the roof, finds the fault, and you get told what it is and what it takes to put right, in writing. No number is quoted off a phone call.
Yes. Kili & Cousins works across the Perth metro, east included. Put the suburb on the job sheet and you get a straight yes or no rather than a runaround.
We work right across the Perth metro, north and south of the river. These suburbs have a page of their own: Applecross, Ascot, Baldivis, Canning Vale, Joondalup, South Perth, Wanneroo, Midland. If yours is not listed we almost certainly still get there, so ask and we will tell you straight away.
Describe what you have noticed and we will come and find the cause. The look costs nothing and you get told what it is even if the fix is small.