roof

Hi All, new here so please bear with me. I have recently replaced the flat roof on my brick built shed and am thinking I am wanting to insulate the roof as I am getting condensation on the underside of the roof boards. I have some left over loft insulation, enough to do the job, so was thinking...

Hi, I've had all the gutters and downpipes to the main house replaced - previously plastic/cast iron mix. The new gutters are 5" seamless aluminium in a Victorian style and downpipes 68mm cast aluminium. The upper part of the side gable was previously a rotten wooden gutter with fall to the...

We've got a flat roof on top of our apartment block that is approx 30 years old, and are looking for general advice on maintaining it, as we are concerned about the discoloration. Some basic questions we have are: - What is the roofing material? Zinc? Tin? Lead? Something else? - Is the...

Hi all. We suffer from a lot of noise in our top floor bedroom. The walls are slopey - directly below the roof. The insulation there looks minimal to me. There appears to be enough space to add further insulation without losing the 50mm gap needed for air circulation. Can I just slide in more...

Hello, We have a bungalow with a dormer roof which has vented soffits (image attached) in cold weather the soffits allow cold air into the roof so the edges of the ceiling are colder and moisture condenses on these cold areas which leads to mould (image attached). I have recently fitted a loft...

So we recently bought a house that had a chimney breast removed and supported at loft level on brackets. I noticed when heavy rain there was water coming through the chimney stack and hitting the ceiling causing a stain below. there was already mushroom caps fitted and the haunching on the top...

Hi all, I'm looking for some opinions on the cause of some wet rafters in the attic. The rafters to the rear (north facing) elevation are all wet on top and down the sides. The rafters on the front (south facing) elevation look to be okay. I'm trying to work out if the likely cause is a roof...

We noticed a leak by our chimney in the loft a few months ago when it rains. We have had the ridge tiles replaced and a new chimney cap placed to try and solve the issue. The next suggestion is repointing the chimney, though it’s not very obvious that this needs doing. Is there any other...

Hi all, I’m hoping for some advice. This morning the other half walked under the loft hatch in the office and was dripped on. I went up there and found this. I’ve called some local roofers and have two coming out next week to quote. But, seriously, what is this I’m looking at. There’s...

Hi there, Since we moved in to a newly built house we noticed annoying damp stains, patches and the paint crumbling in a living room floor are - you can see it from the staircase. We've been trying to establish the potential cause of the issue and we failed. Had a plumber testing our boiler...

I have a 1930s semi-detached with a 5-section bay window at the front. At the top front bedroom we noticed a damp patch in the ceiling of the bay window. Ah, water leak. Had a guy in to inspect it, which we paid £300 for. Went up on a ladder, had a look at it inside and also poked around in our...

Hi, I moved into a new property about 4 months ago, soon afterwards i noticed a small brown mark in the corner of the ceiling but thought nothing of it, recently I noticed that the patch has grown considerably and is damp to the touch. It seems to have become more severe since we had our boiler...

Hi everyone, new to this site so please accept my apologies if I’ve missed anything. I’ve got full planning consent for a garage conversion and extension on top. The new extension has a hip roof that’s been approved by planning. Builder advising a gable roof will look much nicer as...

Hi, I am struggling to understand my roofing contractor's quote and reasoning behind some of the work. The roof on our rear extension (extended by previous owner) is missing the edges in the bottom corners and it slipped over the years. We need to replace the old skylights, so we want to...

Our internal soil stacks are attached to external vents on our roof and the felt has not been sealed around the pipes. The wind howls through the attic space as there’s plenty of ventilation at the soffits and along the ridge line. See attached photos. Is this a standard / best practice type of...

Hi, so I got installed warm roof on the conservatory including fancy glass panel . However the glass panel behaves weirdly, as when there is a sun light, it gets very hot in the inside and is basically emitting heat into the room. Also now there appeared some sort of weird blistering on the...

Hi. We have had a flat roof kitchen extension built, with EPDM and two skylights. The company that built it pulled out of the project neat completion, it was really weird and I don't know why they didn't finish it but I get the feeling that they misquoted and were just cutting their losses at...

Hi all, Im new to the forum I hope you can forgive me if I post something in the wrong place. I hope someone can help me. My neighbour has had new roof tiles put by a council, and to my eyes the bit where is merging with my roof it just doesnt look right. Their tiles are bigger than mine but...

Hi all, I'm in the process of buying a property. The RICS surveyor flagged the roof as being problematic: the purlin towards the front of the house seems to have moved by a few cm and is not fully resting on the diagonal support along its length or on the metal support in the party wall. -...

Hi there, I'm hoping someone can help advise. I've had two roofers out to look at my attic space, as there is inadequate ventilation in the ceiling void and therefore we've had issues with condensation collecting on the roof felt in winter and it being extremely hot in the summer. Both...