Commercial Roofing
/ Cladding

Cambridge Roof Exchange refurbishes the roofs and walls of working industrial and commercial buildings: warehouses, factories, distribution centres and offices. Whether your building needs new wall cladding, an overclad of a tired metal roof, or a full strip and re-sheet of an old asbestos cement roof, we design, supply and install the whole envelope, and we plan every job around keeping your site running.

Overcladding and replacement

Most of our cladding work is refurbishment rather than new build. Overcladding fixes a new insulated system over the existing roof or walls, so the building stays weathertight and in use throughout and the old sheets don’t need stripping and skipping. On our warehouse overclad in Swindon, for example, we installed a new system over a badly corroded metal roof without any tear-off. Because the new system is insulated, it also cuts heat loss and can help lift your EPC rating towards the standards landlords and occupiers now have to meet. Where the existing cladding has to come off, including asbestos cement sheeting, we remove it safely and replace it with modern profiled metal sheeting, finished with matching flashings, gutters and downpipes.

From survey to handover

We take each project from the first survey through to handover. Our in-house team covers design, procurement, project management and customer care, so you deal with one contractor from start to finish. We also handle building control and structural compliance on your behalf, and we’ll explain clearly what your building needs and why before any work is priced.

Experience

Our team has spent its working life in industrial roofing and cladding, and that experience shows in the advice we give as much as in the work on site. We have delivered large refurbishment programmes across the UK for clients including Sealed Air, Iron Mountain, Aldi, Wenzels, Luton Ambulance Station and Convatec, often on buildings that stayed fully operational while we worked overhead. Our 5,000 m² refurbishment of the Sealed Air warehouse in St Neots is a good example of the kind of project we do best.

Health, safety and accreditations

Working at height on a live site leaves no room for shortcuts. Every job is planned with its own risk assessment and method statement, and our dedicated Health and Safety Manager, accredited to the highest levels, oversees safety across all of our projects. We are certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 for quality, environmental management and health and safety, and we are NFRC members, SafeContractor approved and CITB registered.

Thinking about recladding or overcladding a building? Request a survey and we’ll come out, assess the roof and walls, and recommend the right solution for your building and your budget. If you’re still weighing up your options, our guides for owners of older factories and warehouses cover repair versus replacement, asbestos roofs and planning insulation and solar together.