About us
Thirty years in the trade.
One standard of work.
Roofs & Drives Ltd was built on a simple belief: that homeowners deserve a tradesman they can actually trust. Someone who shows up, does the job properly, and leaves the site better than they found it. That’s been Tom Lee’s standard since 1992 — and it’s the standard we hold every job to today.
Free survey · Fixed written quote · 10-year workmanship guarantee
Tom started in roofing and groundworks over three decades ago, long before Roofs & Drives Ltd existed. Through those years he worked across the North East, built up a deep knowledge of the trade, and developed a reputation that followed him from job to job — not through advertising, but through the quality of the work.
After seeing how things could be done better, Tom decided to do exactly that. Roofs & Drives Ltd was founded with a straightforward purpose: offer a genuinely complete service — roofing, groundworks, and driveways — under one name, with one consistent standard, and no corners cut along the way.
Tom Lee
Founder & Lead Tradesman
In the trade since 1992
Specialist in conservatory roof conversions
Based in Darlington
£5M public liability insured
AWARD Winner of Best Driveway Service Darlington 2025
How we got here
The journey behind the business
Thirty years in any trade teaches you things no course can. Tom’s career has taken him across roofing, groundworks, conservatory conversions, and driveway installations — giving him a ground-level understanding of how each job connects to the next, and why doing one thing poorly affects everything that follows.
1992
Entered the roofing & groundworks trade
Tom began his career on the tools, learning the fundamentals of roofing and groundwork from the ground up. A trade built on precision, patience, and getting the basics right every time.
Over the years
Built expertise across roofing, conversions & driveways
Three decades of hands-on work across the North East gave Tom a reputation built entirely on results. Conservatory roof conversions became a specialism — transforming spaces most contractors wouldn’t touch.
BECAME A FOUNDER OF
Roofs & Drives Ltd
After years of watching homeowners let down by poor workmanship and broken promises, Tom launched Roofs & Drives Ltd — a business where the standard of work comes first, every single time.
YEAR 2025
Named Best Driveway Service in Darlington
Recognised at the Quality Business Awards 2025 — not for marketing, but for the work itself and the reputation built one job at a time.
TEAM BEHIND THE SCENES
The Crew
A small team. A high bar.
We’re not a large operation, and that’s deliberate. Tom works alongside a small, trusted crew — tradespeople who’ve been selected for one reason: they care about the quality of the work as much as he does.
When you book with Roofs & Drives Ltd, you’re not getting a rotating cast of whoever’s available that week. You get the same people, the same standards, from the first day on site to the last. That consistency is what makes the difference between a job that looks good on day one and work that holds up for years.
What our crew brings to every job?
Reliability on site. Clear communication with the customer. Pride in the finished result — not just the structural work, but the detail and the finish that you actually live with. We leave every site clean, tidy, and exactly as we said we would.
What drives us
Three things we're proud of on every job
The finished quality
Work that's built to last and finished to a standard we'd be happy with on our own homes. Not nearly right. Right.
How we treated the customer
Kept informed at every stage. No chasing, no vague answers, no surprises. Just clear, honest communication throughout.
The transformation
Especially on conservatory conversions — turning a cold, unusable space into somewhere a family actually wants to be. That never gets old.
Where we work
Serving Darlington and across the North East
We’re based in Darlington and cover up to 40 miles, taking on roofing, driveway, and groundworks projects across the wider region.
Darlington
Newton Aycliffe
Hartlepool
Middlesbrough
Redcar
Guisborough
Stokesley
Ingleby Barwick
Norton
Billingham
Stockton-on-Tees
Northallerton
Thirsk
Ripon
Want to talk about your project?
A quick call is all it takes. No obligation, no hard sell — just honest advice from someone who knows the trade.
The standards behind every job
Anyone can write ‘quality workmanship’ on a van. These are the specific commitments we’re held to on every single job, and they’re deliberately easy to check up on:
You don’t pay until you’re satisfied. Not a deposit-chasing model — the work convinces you, then you pay. Every installation carries a written 10-year workmanship guarantee, backed by £5 million public liability insurance. Fixed written quotes after a free survey — the price you’re quoted is the price you pay, with any genuinely unforeseeable item (like concealed rotten timber) evidenced with photos before a penny is added. And the work is done by our own team — nothing subbed out to whoever was cheapest that week, which is precisely why we can guarantee it for a decade.
Why the reviews read the way they do
We won Best Driveway Service Darlington 2025 and hold a 5.0★ rating across our review profiles — and the pattern in those reviews isn’t ‘cheap’ or even ‘fast’, it’s tidy, honest, came back when asked, left the place spotless. That’s the business model: in a town this size, the next ten customers hear about the last one. It keeps our standards higher than any inspection could.
Where we work
We’re based in Darlington and work across the town and its villages — Hurworth, Middleton St George, Sadberge, Cockerton, Heighington and the rest — plus Newton Aycliffe, Bishop Auckland, Durham, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and the wider North East. Roofing and driveways, one firm, one guarantee: browse all our services or see everywhere we cover.