We worked with Davey Roofing, part of the Jones Building Group, to deliver this year’s roofing programme in our Orchard region. This involves 97 projects in this year's programme of works at properties in and around Chard, Ilchester, Mudford, Wincanton, Yeovil, and numerous villages. Established in 1979, Jones Building Group operates throughout the south west, carrying out construction, refurbishment and small works, as well as painting and decorating, cyclical maintenance and fire safety solutions. Davey Roofing is one of its subsidiaries and has been working with them for more than 12 years.
This year Davey roofing have completed a year’s programme within a 6-month period due to a limited contract extension, averaging 16 completed roofs per month with a high of 24 in June. The combined value of the roofing programme (this includes roofs, rainwater goods, soffits and fascias and chimneys) totals just over £1.2 million.
Alison Rixon, Head of Property Care at Abri, said: “We’ve worked with Davey Roofing for more than a decade and that’s why I’m pleased the Group is stepping up its social value procurement funding commitments through community support pledges.
“We’re confident our partnership will not only provide safe and warm homes for our customers, but also help our communities thrive in other ways, not just delivering quality maintenance programmes.”
Milford Road, Yeovil
We recently signed off a project in which we collaborated with our in-house retrofit team to install Solar P.V. Panels to ten properties that had only achieved a band -d rating in the recent E.P.C. surveys, at the same time as the roof renewal works. Collaborating in this way, we have saved additional costs for scaffold access, and believe we have saved Abri in the region of £21,250-00.
This included two semi-detached properties at Milford Road in Yeovil where the roof had come to the end of its planned component life cycle. We define a life cycle on something’s design, quality, materials, environmental conditions, and maintenance. Generally, our component life cycle for a roof at Abri is 70 years.
Davey Roofing completed a roof renewal which included replacing the felt under the tiles, renewing the soffits and fascias to both properties.