Forest · 1190
Roof structure & framing à Forest
Repairs to rafters, purlins and verges, timber treatment included. In Forest every quotation starts with access.
14 km from our depot in Grimbergen
What that changes here
Under the Brussels mansard roofs there is an old, slender roof structure, often weakened where the box gutter has leaked for decades. So the damage is almost always on the facade side, in the wall plate and the rafter ends. We open that up before putting a price forward: from below, nothing shows.
Forest is built on a slope, and it shows on the roofs: tall houses from the 1920s and 1930s, a lot of Art Deco around the Altitude Cent, and a low, industrial part down towards the canal. The differences in level make scaffold access the first question on every job.
What we get called out for in Forest
In Forest every quotation starts with access. On the slope of the Altitude Cent the houses are tall and the front gardens narrow; putting up a scaffold there needs a road occupation permit and sometimes a parking ban. After that comes the ordinary work: box gutters, slates and 1930s dormers.
Forest porte le code postal 1190 et se situe in the Brussels-Capital Region. Notre équipe part de Grimbergen, à 14 km : nous y planifions la charpente en même temps que les chantiers de Uccle, Anderlecht et Ixelles, pour qu’un déplacement serve plusieurs toitures.
- 01Probing
- 02Diagnosis
- 03Treatment
- 04Prevention
The full technical detail of this service is on the page Roof structure & framing.
Common questions
Pour un devis, la visite à Forest se fixe en général sous quelques jours ouvrés. Nous partons de Grimbergen, à 14 km, et nous groupons nos visites par secteur : si un chantier tourne déjà cette semaine à Uccle ou Anderlecht, cela peut aller plus vite. En cas de fuite active, nous venons d’abord bâcher et sécuriser ; la charpente n’est chiffrée qu’ensuite.
A curative treatment carried out properly protects for about ten years. But the real protection is ventilation: a dry, ventilated loft interests neither insects nor fungi. So we put the ventilation right at the same time as the timber.
Four signs should raise the alarm: fine sawdust at the foot of the timbers, exit holes a few millimetres across, timber that sounds hollow under a hammer, and a smell of fungus in the loft. None of them is visible from the ground — which is why we always go up.
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Roof structure & framing à Forest
We come out, we go up onto the roof, we photograph. The quotation follows within 24 working hours, item by item.
Not sure about your roof?
The visit costs nothing and the quotation follows within 24 hours. One call is enough to know where you stand.