What we cover in Newtown.
Aerial Assess provides roof inspections and assessments across all of Newtown, from Riddiford Street and the hospital area through to the streets climbing toward Mt Cook and the Town Belt. We come out, look at the visible and accessible roof areas, and send you a plain-language written assessment letter. Where a roof is too steep, shared with a neighbour, or otherwise hard to reach safely, we use drone access to photograph it from above.
Newtown's housing stock is mostly older and densely packed. Victorian villas, Edwardian cottages, terraced rows, and the occasional original semi-detached. There are also more recent townhouses and infill builds. What ties it together is density: sections are small, neighbouring buildings are close, and the roofs interact with each other in ways the inner-suburb sections don't.
Our background covers the full range of Wellington roofs, from villa-era tile and corrugate to long-run metal and membrane. That matters in Newtown specifically: the suburb has decades of mixed-era roofing repairs layered on top of original villa and cottage stock, and working out what's actually on the roof (and what was patched over what) is often where a general building inspection runs out of road.
What we typically find on Newtown roofs
- Aged ridge cap pointing on older tile roofs, often never redone since the home was built.
- Lead and zinc flashing fatigue around the original chimneys typical of Newtown villas. A lot of it is well past its useful life.
- Party-wall flashing wear on terraced and semi-detached homes, where the flashing between attached properties is one of the most common leak sources.
- Mixed-era patch repairs from decades of small fixes. Newtown's rental and investor stock typically has more repair history than a single-owner inner suburb.
- Long-run metal re-roof condition on the many Newtown homes that were re-roofed away from original tile at some point.
- Gutter and downpipe issues, more common where tree cover or moss is heavy and where the downpipes discharge close to neighbouring buildings.
- Roof penetration details on infill and townhouse builds, especially around solar mounts, plumbing vents, and flue penetrations.
Where Newtown building reports fall short: Newtown has a high proportion of two-storey terraced and villa homes with steep pitches, shared walls and tight sections. Building inspectors often can't safely access the roof, and even when they can, they typically can't see the party-wall flashings or the back-sections of attached properties. We provide the separate roofer's assessment those reports ask for.