Roofing leads in Cork, weather and all.
Cork roofing demand is driven by weather coming off the Atlantic, and it does not arrive evenly. A single bad system can produce a month of call-outs in three days, and the contractors who capture it are the ones already visible when the wind drops.
The county also splits hard. Cork city has a dense, old housing stock with slate, chimneys and valleys that need real skill. West Cork is exposed, scattered and an hour's drive between jobs.
Storm weeks are the year in miniature
Atlantic systems hit Cork earlier and harder than most of the country, and the run from October through February produces a disproportionate share of the year's emergency work.
That is an argument for being set up before the season rather than during it. A roofer who starts advertising the morning after a storm is bidding against every other roofer in the county at the worst possible moment, and is invisible in the map results that actually get the calls.
City slate and county exposure are different businesses
Cork city and the older suburbs — Sunday's Well, Blackrock, Douglas — carry period housing with slate roofs, lead valleys and chimney work. That is skilled, well-paid, planned work, and the customers research before they ring.
West Cork and the coast is exposure, wind damage and long drives. The jobs are more urgent, the travel eats the margin, and a contractor needs to be honest with themselves about how far out it is worth going.
We build the campaigns around whichever of those two you actually do, because advertising for both with one message wins neither well.
What we would actually run
Google Ads on the emergency and repair searches in your own part of the county, weighted into the storm season. Meta to the towns you cover, showing finished roofs on houses people recognise.
And a lead form that asks the roof type, the problem and whether there is water coming in — because a Cork roofer driving forty minutes to a job that turns out to be a cracked ridge tile has lost the morning.
Built around where you actually travel.
- Cork city
- Douglas
- Ballincollig
- Carrigaline
- Midleton
- Mallow
- Bandon
- Clonakilty
- Fermoy
- Cobh
- Kinsale
- Macroom
Questions from Cork roofers
Before the storm season rather than during it. Atlantic systems arrive from October and the contractors who capture that work are the ones already visible when it starts.
If you genuinely travel there, yes, and the work is more urgent. If you do not, the drive will cost you more than the job is worth and the lead form should filter it out.
No. We work with roofing contractors and we work with Cork businesses, but we have no Cork roofing client and we will not present one we do not have. Ask on a call and we will tell you exactly who we work with and what we did.
Older housing stock — slate, lead valleys, chimneys. That is skilled planned work with customers who research first, which is a different campaign from storm-damage call-outs.
€1,500 a month with everything included, or €2,500 with the second channel and a new website. Month to month, no setup fee, and ad spend goes directly to the platforms from your own account.