Roofing

Anyone that’s followed my intermittent posts (sorry very busy with SEO consulting work and I’ve hurt my hip, so work ground to a slow crawl) will know we had our flat roofs replaced by a company called Rooftec and we had a few problems.

We eventually got things sorted, unfortunately one of the flat roofs started to leak (or more likely been leaking for ages, but took a while to show via a damaged ceiling).

We have a large flat roof over a 2 storey kitchen extension, the Rooftec system involved replacing the roof boards (though for this roof we agreed to let them overboard what looked like good quality OSB board) and then fiberglassing over the new wood. Fibreglass is used on boats, so in theory should be better than a flat felt roof.

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Covering a few days of roofing work here.

Early Tuesday morning two Roofers from Rooftec (same ones we met on Friday, in the end they did all the work below) arrived at the house and started stripping the front dormer window roof. Would have took photos, but lost the camera!!

This is what they took off-

Their new OSB/Sterling board with associated fibreglass system attached (so they did at least overboard and not as I first suspected, just add the fibreglass to the original roof (so that’s not as bad as I thought).

Below that was what appeared to be a bodged overboard attempt with felt roofing. So someone had fitted a new flat roof over the old flat roof, though the wood used seemed to be a mix of various types!!

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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:-)).

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