OWC House Renovation

All I seem to do is think about flat roofs this month!!

OK, Friday morning 8:30am ish Rooftec roofers give us a call (we are at home getting ready to go to the house) they are on site and can’t start the job without access to the electrics, so I tell them we’ll be there is just over an hour (it’s a minimum 50 minute drive, though an hour with son number 2 in the car as he gets travel sick :-)).

Would have been there at 8:30am, but the owner of Rooftec I spoke to the other day said they could do it without access. Plan was to turn up at around 10am when they’d made a significant start on stripping the flat roofs (I hate early mornings since I tend to work until 5am so an extra hours sleep means a lot to me:-)).

Tags: Roofing

One of the owners of Rooftec came to the house on Monday, showed him the underside of the two flat dormer roofs that had been done wrong.

He tried to convince me the roofs would be fine, apparently wet mushy roofing boards with black mold on them is fine, our kids are going to be sleeping in these rooms so it’s far from fine!!

It was obvious from his approach he knew it had been done badly, when something is acceptable, you don’t agree with little argument to rip it all out and start again without additions payment (I wouldn’t anyway). Although I hadn’t paid yet, so that was probably a factor.

Continueing on from the last post Flat Roofing by Rooftec (Glass Fiber Flat Roof) regarding the replacement of our flat roofs.

Ran into a big problem with the last two flat roofs (on dormer windows), the Rooftec roofers didn’t do the job correctly (looks like they fibreglassed over the old felt, which is the wrong way to do it).

We removed some plasterboard and discovered siginifcant water leakage from the roofs (long term roof leaks not new) as well, so someone from Rooftec is coming to the house on Monday so I’ll post what they did wrong and the solution then (got a lot of pictures to post showing the problems).

Despite the positive nature of this blog post RoofTec are not a roofing company I’d recommend, please read all the comments at the bottom and read other relevant posts before hiring RoofTec. It sounds like their guarantee is not worth the paper it is printed on.

A year later and the roof below has leaked in two places due to a design flaw in their system, or to be more precise not following the system they say they use on their website. This has had me on the roof several times patching small gaps which water can splash/be blown into between the roof and the main building wall.

When it comes to the plaster in the house it’s a mess, near enough all the ceilings are failing (the old lathe and plaster ceilings) and many of the walls that are plaster, not plasterboard have problems due to years of neglect.

I’ve never plastered before, closest to plastering is filling the odd hole with polyfilla, so I had no idea how hard/easy plastering could/would be. So we prepared a small wall, bought some one coat plaster from Wikes (10KG bag) and I tried to plaster a 4 foot square test area.