roofing

Hi all, Looking into reboarding and recovering a flat roof extension at my cottage. Currently its in felt but looking at epdm as boards will need replaced The flat roof adjoins to a pitched slate roof were the slates are directly nailed to the sarking. There is no battens or tar paper...

Hi all, I am hoping to get some advice on how water ingress/roof leak detection surveys work. Have anyone had one before and what would be their review? My feeling is that they will just identify lots of things and say it could be any of them, but likely not actually be able to give any...

I bought a small wooden door canopy/porch like this one and I want to put slate tiles on it. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Apex-Pine-Door-Canopy---1190-x-1560mm/p/296073 Its 60cm wide, so guessing 5cm over hang on the front/verge, so total of 65cm wide. What width tiles should I use? 200mm 250mm...

My roof is really steep and needs quite a bit of manual work done on it. I've got a ladder with roof hooks but I'd prefer to be able to move around the roof more freely but would rather not slip and fall. I already have a professional climbing harness and rope so I'm wondering if anyone has...

I have an disused outbuilding (approx 10m x 3m) which I'd like to turn into something useful like a workshop/office/gym/etc. The building has a truss roof and currently there is no internal ceiling i.e. the trusses are all exposed. I could put a regular flat ceiling in, but the height would be...

I'm building a log cabin office (about 5mx3.5m) and I'm going to insulate the roof with 50mm insulation board. The insulation is made by Mannok but is basically the same as Kingspan, foil-backed on both sides. The plan is to get the roof deck on first (pine tongue and groove boards), frame the...

We have had several roofers and builders over to quote and give an inspection but all of them have said different things and I'm hoping this forum will help us. We've already spent money on fixing the roof (one was on a cowboy who fixed us up with artificial lead and gave us a 10 year...

I'm about to buy the materials for my decking roof, but just wanted to get a quick sanity check please, before doing so. I'll be buying box profile 32/1000 sheets and some purlins to support them. My decking roof comprises 2x4 rafters of length 4450mm spanning a roof of 7210mm at 525mm centres...

I had a builder duck and run after taking my money. He did a lot of work half heartily and now he’s not returning any calls. I had the building inspector round who said the attempt of lateral restraining the new gable wall to the roof was poor and needed to be re-done. He hasn’t given me any...

Hiya. Hoping for some advice on roofing, please. I built this deck a couple of years ago ... ... and am very happy with it, for the most part. We put some bamboo matting on top to give us some shade, and it's honestly performed the job quite well. In the recent winds though, it suffered quite...

I have a single, detached garage. It has had nothing done to it since it was built in the 1960s. Its walls are a single skin of brick. It has a flat roof that is covered in bitumen felt. Over recent years the felt has badly deteriorated and the rain has thus soaked into the wood-plank decking...

Hi I have a flat roof on the garage and looking to convert it to a insulated storage room (make it double brick) and would like add a pitched roof ontop of the garage, just trying to get ideas for a roof shape as its hard to imagine if joining at a valley (front apex). Ideally would like the...

I cannot get my head around how I’m going to do this! Ideally I want the wall plate sat back so it isn’t exposed too low. Structural engineer said I can do it either way, sit on top of shorter beam coming out of extension or sat on the post, I can’t see how it would work on picture one? Can...

Ideally I want the wall plate sat back so it isn’t exposed too low. Structural engineer said I can do it either way, sit on top of shorter beam coming out of extension or sat on the post, I can’t see how it would work on picture one? Can anyone help, what’s the best way to go about it? If I did...

Hello I have recently recovered a flat roof dormer with Sika Sarnafil here is my video covering the project has anyone else used this product before ? Loft Dormer Flat Roofing Don’t Worry We Are Professionals Sorry about the title couldn’t think of anything

Hi. I'm really just after some advice. We have a bedroom bay (hex) flat roof about 3' deep and 7' wide at widest point. It is leaking quite badly. The root cause of this appears to be a crack in the lead. Someone in the past has tried to fix this with flash band. The wood under, while a bit...

I will try to be as concise as possible. See photos for context Jan 2023 - re-roof with existing stone slates, fitting of felt, fitting of velux windows, cost of £6000 Jan - April 2023 - always been an attic room in this house, no insulation so I knocked the lath and lime ceiling down. Then...

Hi, We are converting a double detached garage at the back of our garden. It will need building regs approval because of the size (45sqm) and being at the boundary on 3 sides. I am struggling with the roof - The open span of it (5.79m) is not even in the span tables so I am imagining we will...

Hi everyone, hoping someone would provide some guidance if possible. In my house one of the bedrooms gets a bad damp problem from condensation, this looks to be the worst I’ve seen it. It was built in the 1950’s, there has been insulation laid in the attic, only on the ceiling level which I...

Hi Experts, I’m seeking as much advice as is reasonably possible, as I’ve no frame of reference to determine if the info I’ve been given is “Reasonable”, “On the high side” or just “bat **** crazy!” Here’s the background. My wife and I are looking to retire in Portugal. We’ve found a great old...