First post in the series: Glass Fiber Flat Roof

Anyone who's followed my intermittent posts (sorry very busy with my 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 local company and then we had a few problems.

We eventually got things sorted, unfortunately among the flat roofs started initially to leak (or maybe more likely been leaking for ages, but took a bit to exhibit via a damaged ceiling).

We now have a large flat roof over a 2 story kitchen extension, the roof system involved replacing the roof boards (though with this roof we consented to let them overboard what looked like good quality OSB board) after which fiberglassing on the new wood. Fiberglass is used on boats, so in theory, should really be a lot better than a flat felt roof.

Not sure if poor quality work or poor design, but because the join amongst the flat roof, while the main building wasn’t sealed correctly water falling off a greater roof, was finding it is way into the property from two points!!

The company had added rendering strip regarding the existing wall to redirect water out of the joins, but underneath this rendering strip, water could splash into the opening amongst the roof plus the wall.

In 90% of properties, I guess this wouldn't be a problem, but we now have a dormer flat roof which water pours from when it rains in excess. The water drops 2 stories, so significant splashing is inevitable.

I fixed this by filling the gaps with mortar, but it really should not have happened.

Will need some photos as the above is difficult to explain.

Suffice to state we needed to remove another ceiling that got wet, one which the theory is that we didn't need certainly to remove, though glad we have since we found a previous roof replacement had left LOTS of the old roofing material including the stone chips in the plasterboard (the extra weight may cause the ceiling to fail, so better dealt with now)!!!!

First post in the series: Glass Fiber Flat Roof

One of several people who own this company came to your house on Monday, showed him the lower associated with two flat dormer roofs that were done wrong.

He tried to convince me the roofs will be fine, apparently wet mushy roofing boards with black mold on it is fine, our children are going to be sleeping within these rooms so it's far from fine!!

It was obvious from his approach he knew it was done badly, when something is acceptable, that you do not agree with little to no argument to rip it all out and begin again without additions payment (I wouldn't anyway). Although I experiencedn't paid yet, to ensure that was probably a factor.

Anyway, his explanation was the roofers will have over boarded the roofs after cleaning regarding the old felt (like they did in the first roof), and so they must have missed the significant damage because of the height (4 storey high) and wind!

Sounds like bullshit in my experience, so at this stage I'm not impressed or convinced utilizing the explanation, the way in which I notice it is I am off site a couple of days and they bodge the rest of the job assuming we might never find the problem!!

He said he would call me later that day or even the day after.

As a side note, the medial side panels one of many roofers said they could add was not put into the sides of this roofs. Oh well :-(

BTW have misplaced the digital camera (probably in a pile of tools during the house), so can not take any images!!!!!