Ecclesiastical Buildings Maintenance and Repair

Vertex Heritage are dedicated to supporting the owners or managers of places of worship for both day to day maintenance of their buildings and for large scale conservation projects.

Our work is underpinned by our:

• Rope access craftspeople, qualified and passionate about historic building conservation

• Experience in providing conservation solutions using industrial rope access techniques successfully over hundreds of projects

• By combining our tried and tested traditional repair methods with modern and innovative conservation techniques, and applying these processes to protect the historic fabric of places of worship

• Sister company, Vertex Air, providing high definition drone based photographic surveys and in depth condition report by heritage qualified surveyor

With deep ties in the ecclesiastical community, Vertex Heritage understand that with falling congressional numbers, rising maintenance costs and an ageing and decaying historic building stock, every penny counts to keeping these building safe, watertight and maintaining their historic and architectural significance.

With only a tenth of Heritage Lottery funding grant applications being successful, major pressure is being put upon the sustained upkeep of these buildings.

Because of this Vertex Heritage have developed the arc system (access & roof conservation) to offer a cost effective solution to maximise the life expectancy of a traditional slate roof whilst retaining the most amount of significant building fabric. The arc system is a viable conservation alternative to a full slate roof replacement.

We consider the arc system as the only method of conserving an existing roof as opposed to the traditional roof restoration which involves the full removal and replacement of the historic fabric with new.

Our portfolio of high level church repairs includes:

• Ridge Tile Replacement and Stabilisation

• Gutter Relining and Repairs

• Lead repairs, bossing and welding

• Inspection by heritage qualified Building Surveyors

• Tile and Stone Roof repairs

• Masonry structural work

• Moss treatment

• Specialist cleaning services (including TORIK System)

• Pigeon Netting and Bird Proofing

• Timber restoration and conservation

• Faculty approved roof insulation

• Emergency roof repairs (lead theft/storm damage/vandalism)

• Long term strategic maintenance planning (PPM - Planned Preventative Maintenance)

• Lime based plastic repair

• Clock dial restoration

• Crack monitoring

All of our works are robustly risk assessed by experienced and SMSTS qualified project managers and NEBOSH qualified Health and Safety managers. All works are completed in accordance Construction Design Management Regulations (CDM 2015).

Our Church Roof services are supported by our unique UAV division, Vertex Air, who operate market-leading drone technology for high-definition photographic condition surveys, thermographic imaging and 3 dimensional modelling.

To browse the full range of our services, click here or to discuss your rope access building survey or inspection requirements, LiveChat below, email us on info@vertexaccess.co.uk or call 01709 379 453