roofing

Wondering if anyone can help, looking after some guidance please. I’m doing a loft conversion and currently reinstating the party wall edges. I had an issue with leaks prior to this and I believe it was due to having old concrete tiles on angle, without any lead flashing. I’ve attached a...

I am building my first roof and have some questions about flashing and ridge tiles. For the abutment (first photo), I plan to use cavity trays with integral lead flashing. For the other side (first photo), I am not sure how to form the flashing. The gap between the ridge and the chimney is 4.5”...

Hi all I have a large garage roofed with corrugated galvanized metal sheets with four plastic corrugated roof lights. As some of the metal sheets were showing rust, I had it painted about four years ago. Following a power wash the painter used a coat of ZINNSER 1-2-3 primer followed by two...

I'm putting corrugated bitumen sheets on the roof of a garden building. The roof is a pent design, with a pitch of 10 degrees, and is boarded with 18mm osb. Is it recommended to put a breather membrane on the osb before laying the bitumen sheets? Thanks

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Hello, I recently purchased an end of terrace Edwardian property. The roof is generally in good condition however upon looking in the the loft, found a few tears in the felt. These are only small so think I can patch them up. However, there is one which I am not sure how to sort and it is...

Hello all, I have a flat felt roof Garage, which is in the middle of a large block. There’s a substantial amount of water ponding on top in a bottom corner. (I cleared this today along with cleaning out the guttering) There’s no guttering at the rear where the ponding is, only at the front so...

Hi. I've joined this site as I bought a semi detached 1950s Bungalow April 2020. We have a converted garage extension on the side of the house where the chimney is, which has a flat roof (we have had this replaced since moving in as it was leaking) When we moved in we noticed 2 large damp...

Hello everyone, I have just started a new job in the commercial and industrial roofing sector, as a trainee estimator, are there any commercial/industrial roofers on here that would mind answering a few questions of mine please?

I live in a 1900s terraced style house, it is joined back to back as opposed to having neighbours either side, meaning it has two gable walls. The house is a peculiar shape and on the right hand side it widens towards the back, from a Birdseye view it forms a trapezium. The roof features Roman...

Please help! We’re not actually considering doing this on our own, just looking for roofing advice. We’ve been living in our first house for just over a year and know nothing about roofing! We have a leak coming into our bedroom along the line of the eaves of the house. We’ve been told by two...

Hi all, I hope all is good with everyone. Looking for some advice, as the extension we build to give our child his own room has sadly been hit with some cowboy builders. (We got references, recommendations, saw their previous work and they were not cheap) In a nut shell they have built the...

Hi - this is my first post here and I was hoping someone could advise. I have recently moved into a 3 bed semi detached dating from the 1930's, the house is slated in good quality Welsh slates but had no 'breathable' membrane. We have just had the slates removed, a membrane fitted...

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Hi, I am in the process of planning the fitting of a ceiling mounted disabled lifting hoist and the room it is going in has a ceiling constructed of only 3 x 2 timbers on the rear addition of a Victorian house with a pitched red concrete tiled roof above. I need to create some additional support...

Hi all, I have recently installed a warm GRP flat roof on my extension, the roof is 90m² with a parapet wall all the way around and and a hidden box gutter built in and two 3000mm x 1000mm flat roof. Due to the size of the roof, a few fiddly details and doing it on my own i have had to do the...

Hi, I live in 1920's terraced house with gable roof. I've just finished reproofing the back of my house (garden side) using the mix old plain concrete tiles (cleaned thoroughly) and lots of new ones as well. I've used old tiles purely due to lack of funds and also Covid closures meant...

My 1st post hopefully I've done this correctly: Just had roof, chimney, soffits & fascias done. 1. I informed the NFRC roofing contractor when he did site survey that surveyor said soffits could be Asbestos Cement (house built 1970) - roofer said he'd need to get them tested. 2. Roof work...

Hi, For the past few months I've noticed a leak in the roof causing water to drip down the outside of the chimney on one side of the loft. I had someone come to fix it and he replaced the lead flashing at the back of the chimney. It didn't work however and the water continued to leak through as...

Hi, We live in an old Victorian terrace from about 1870, the roof is mainly original with slates but no underfelt. At some point someone has put mortar under the tiles (not sure if this is usual). There were a few gaps with daylight showing here and there but mainly fine, especially on the...