UK Roofing News: June 2026

A busy fortnight for the UK roofing trade, and most of it lands on the homeowner’s quote sooner or later. Metal and steel prices are climbing ahead of a tariff change in July, the HSE has issued two safety reminders that matter when you hire a roofer, and the industry has named its best work of the year. Here is what happened between late May and 11 June 2026.

Metal and steel costs climb ahead of July tariff change

Roofing Today reports that aluminium prices have risen 21 per cent since the Iran conflict began, copper rose 5 per cent in May, and structural steel has jumped from about £700 per tonne at the start of the year to around £950 per tonne in April. On top of that, the government plans to cut tariff-free steel import quotas by 60 per cent and apply a 50 per cent tariff above the threshold from 1 July, a move the Construction Leadership Council has asked it to delay. For homeowners, this feeds into the price of flashings, lintels, fixings and steelwork on bigger jobs, so a written fixed-price quote is worth more than usual right now. Read the detail at Roofing Today, and see what normally drives the headline figure in our new roof cost guide.

HSE renews its asbestos warning for trades and building owners

Ahead of Men’s Health Week, the Health and Safety Executive is reminding tradespeople that any building constructed or renovated before 2000 can still contain asbestos, and that routine repair and re-roofing work is exactly the kind of job that disturbs it. Its “Asbestos, Your Duty” and “Asbestos and You” campaigns offer free guidance for both workers and building owners. If your home was built before 2000, especially if it has cement roof sheets, an old garage roof or original soffits, ask your roofer how they will check for asbestos before they strip anything. The full story is at Roofing Today.

Two firms fined after a scaffolder fell through a roof skylight

CCTV captured a 26-year-old scaffolder falling more than six metres through an almost invisible skylight at a Keighley warehouse, breaking bones in his arm and leg. At Leeds Magistrates Court on 4 June, Clover Access Systems Limited was fined £26,000 and STM360 Limited £53,300 for failing to plan the work around fragile roof surfaces. The HSE called the fall “wholly avoidable”. The lesson for anyone commissioning roof work: a proper quote should include scaffolding, edge protection and fragile-surface precautions, not treat them as optional extras. Coverage at Roofing Today.

UK Roofing Awards 2026 names its Project of the Year

More than 900 industry professionals attended the NFRC’s 2026 UK Roofing Awards, where Staick House by Rowlands Roofing took both Project of the Year and the Heritage Roofing category, and Corey Dowell of Progressive Systems Ltd was named Young Roofer of the Year. Awards do not price a job, but NFRC membership and entries like these are a useful quality signal when you are comparing three quotes that all claim the same thing. If you are at that stage, our roof replacement cost calculator helps you sanity-check the numbers first. Winners list at RoofersCoffeeShop.