Good cladding does three quiet jobs at once. It keeps the weather out, holds the heat in, and gives the building its face.
When it fails due to no link, all three go at the same time, and the bill climbs fast.
So it pays to hire a contractor who treats the walls as seriously as the roof. These seven are a sensible place to start.
At a glance
1. Nationwide Industrial Roofing
Best for: industrial roofing and cladding.
Nationwide Industrial Roofing is the strongest choice when a building needs both roofing and cladding, because it runs the entire envelope as one job rather than two.
Here is the problem with splitting the work. Hire a roofer and a separate cladding firm, and the trickiest part of any industrial building, where the roof meets the wall, ends up being nobody’s clear responsibility. That junction is exactly where leaks start.
This firm takes the whole envelope off your hands. Composite wall cladding, built up metal roofs, overcladding, anti corrosion coatings, and asbestos strip out, all from one programme and one point of contact. The roof to wall details get designed and fitted by the same people.
It works right across the country, so the scale is there for big jobs, and it backs the install with repairs, maintenance, and surveys long after handover.
You can see the joined up approach in the work. At Stadium Way the team wrapped cladding spraying, roof coating, skylights, and resin flooring into a single refurbishment for the Orchard Group. At the New Holland Tractor Plant in Basildon they replaced 8,000 square metres of building envelope while production carried on underneath.
If you only need the walls touched, a pure cladding specialist will do. If the roof is in the mix as well, this is the one to call.
2. AMS Cladding
Best for: full service cladding in the North West.
Three decades on the tools and a habit of owning the job from first survey to final sign off.
Northern based, working nationally, and a good fit if you want one team carrying the whole project.
3. Clad-IT
Best for: insulated overcladding.
Clad-IT spend their days on warehouses, cold stores, and distribution sheds where the insulation has to perform.
Their overcladding work lifts an old wall up to modern thermal standards without stripping it back to the frame.
4. HBMS Cladding
Best for: roof and wall packages.
HBMS run roofing and cladding together on industrial and commercial buildings.
A clean option when one building needs both and you would rather not split the trades.
5. Balmore Specialist Contracts
Best for: cladding repairs.
Thirty five years of putting tired cladding right instead of tearing it down.
Rusted panels, blown laps, weather beaten steel. Balmore mend what is salvageable and replace only what has to go.
6. Salmon Solutions
Best for: metal cladding across sectors.
Salmon Solutions fit external metal cladding well beyond the usual factory and warehouse work, taking in offices, schools, and retail too.
Useful when your buildings are a mixed bag rather than all the same.
7. Century Cladding
Best for: single building roof and cladding jobs.
Century pair roofing and cladding on industrial and commercial buildings.
A tidy choice for one site that needs the lot doing at once.
Making the call
Work out the scope first.
Walls only, and a dedicated cladding firm near you is plenty. Tired panels rather than a rebuild, and Balmore earn the call. Roof and walls together, and Nationwide Industrial Roofing keeps the whole envelope under one contract.
Before you sign, ask each firm for a recent job like yours and check their accreditations are current.
