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Fibreglass Roof
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Old Leeds home ready for a 21st century winter with new roof

A Victorian home in Leeds was saved from internal wet rot and brought into the 21st century when Leeds roofers DPR installed a new fibreglass roof on the property.

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Moss scam
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Trading Standards warn of moss scam artists

The Trading Standards Institute is warning households about the latest cold calling scam where occupants are pressured into having moss removed from their roofs.

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SIG
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Roofing materials supplier plans to target further cost savings

Yorkshire based building and roofing materials group SIG posted a slight fall in first-half profit and said it would target further cost savings in 2013 amid declining market volumes.

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World Roofing Championships
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World Championship for Young Roofers 2012

Next month Switzerland will host the World Championship for Young Roofers with the UK looking to defend its Gold and Silver medals won at the previous competition in Belfast 2010.

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HSE
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Health and safety inspectors to target Yorkshire roofing and construction sites

Roofing and construction sites throughout Yorkshire will be the focus of Health & Safety Inspectors during September in a bid to reduce falls from height. The inspections follow revised guidelines in the ‘Health and safety in roof work’ regulations published by HSE (Health and Safety Executive) earlier this year.

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Roofers Leeds
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There’s hope for our Leeds roofers yet as Melanie Sykes weds ‘average Joe’ (or should that be Jack?)

When some of DPRs roofers in Leeds found out that TV star, and former Boddingtons ad girl, Melanie Sykes had started dating a roofer who asked her out on Twitter it was hard to stop them getting carried away.

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Balancing Roofer
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Balancing act roofer caught on camera risking lives

Anthony Nightingale was snapped by a passerby using a petrol powered disc cutter to cut through a tile while he and a colleague worked on the roof without any scaffolding, safety harnesses or other measures to stop them, or their equipment, falling from the roof.

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Adel Flat garage roof
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Leeds adjoining flat roof garage gets new felt

An adjoining flat roof garage on a house in Adel, a suburb of North Leeds, West Yorkshire now has a new built-up felt roof thanks to DPRs Leeds roofers.

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Leaking roof in Kippax
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Leeds roofers get to work on leaking Kippax property

A house in Kippax, Leeds which had succumbed to internal water damage recently used DPR Leeds Roofing services to repair the roof and brickwork where the water was penetrating the property.

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