There's a hole in my roof, dear Liza dear Liza

[furtive]

Came home from work yesterday to discover a plate-sized brown stain on the upstairs ceiling so had a look in the loft.

There is a round hole a bit bigger than a 50p in the roof, and it's in the exact place where 3 pieces of the roofing felt join, and the three pieces have sort of curled back exposing the hole.

What's the best way to fix this? Do I need to get the hole in the tiles closed, or can I just repair the roofing felt from inside the loft by getting an extra bit and stapling it all together?

[illmonkey]

A proper job will be from the outside, so the water rolls off the new bit onto the old and runs away.

If you repair it from inside, the water will be fighting it's way into the house, it'll be resessed, so water will sit there and eventually you'll have the same issue.

[mgtony]

Also don't expect the fault on the outside to be in the same place as the inside. The water could be getting in anywhere further up, running down the felt and settling/pooling at the point of the joints where you can see it in the loft.

[furtive]

Thanks. I've got a roofer living a few doors down so will go an knock on his door on my way home tonight

[motco]

Surely the sarking felt (if that's the name) is a back-stop in case of tile failure. The point of ingress through the tiles should be sorted - there's many a house with poor or absent felt so that's not the first line of defence.

[Spare tyre]

Hehe for years I had a fault on my roof that I couldn't get round to fixing properly

I put a funnel underneath the drip with a hose attached then fed that into the toilet cistern

Bodge tactic

I was hard up back then

[illmonkey]

I shoved a plastic bag and duct taped it in a hole I had with a bucket underneath incase!

[cptsideways]

Some sky fitter did some bodge to mates roof a few years back. On the night of his 50th birthday this happened when the water met the electrics.

[groucho]

That's what you call a hole in the roof.

[mgtony]

groucho said:

That's what you call a hole in the roof.

That's why it's called Sky TV.

[ooo000ooo]

Spare tyre said:

Hehe for years I had a fault on my roof that I couldn't get round to fixing properly

I put a funnel underneath the drip with a hose attached then fed that into the toilet cistern

Bodge tactic

I was hard up back then

We had a slipped tile for a couple of years. Only noticed when woken one night by water dripping down the wall of our bedroom. Water was running down the felt and leaking through a hole in the felt right down in the eaves. Shoved the plastic lid of a storage box in to divert the drip over the front wall and left it like that for another couple of years. Bodging rules!