Recommendations for a Roofer (Southampton area)?

[KTF]

Following on from my thread here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Can anyone recommend a Roofer in the Southampton area that would be able to come and fix this sooner rather than later?

[Spare tyre]

where are you based?

I recommend a guy called Ian Cockram, hes based in Rownhams

He's so busy i don't think he travels far, plus i'm not sure if you'll be able to get him out quickly (due to always being fully booked)

However, always worth a try as he is a top guy

Good luck

[StefanVXR8]

My brother in law is a cladder/roofer and he's incredibly good at what he does, if you google Andyclad you can get his details from there, just let him know that you know Stefan his brother in law and I'm sure he can sort you out.

Stef

Edited by StefanVXR8 on Tuesday 24th December 16:17

[KTF]

Thanks both, I am in Hedge End haven't checked this thread for a few days.

I already have someone from A P Smith roofing coming out on January 2 to have a look at it:

http://www.checkatrade.com/APSmithRoofingServices/...

But will get in touch with Andyclad as well as they are not far away in Eastleigh.

[Jonboy_t]

Did you manage to get this sorted? I'd be interested to know what caused it or how they fixed it if you don't mind me asking? From the looks of the pic on the other thread, your place is the same build style as mine (same development, I think!) and mine has just started to do the same thing :-(.

[KTF]

Jonboy_t said:

Did you manage to get this sorted? I'd be interested to know what caused it or how they fixed it if you don't mind me asking? From the looks of the pic on the other thread, your place is the same build style as mine (same development, I think!) and mine has just started to do the same thing :-(.

I am in Beattie Rise. I know what the cause is now but the fix isnt great.

Basically a standard roof looks like this:



When the wall is built, the cavity tray is put in place at a level that is above the flashing so any water that goes through the wall runs down, hits the tray then exits over the flashing.

When Paul from A P Smith turned up, he said that he had gotten a lot of calls from people in the same few streets reporting the same problem so he went up and had a look and confirmed it was the same problem in that;

When the house was built (mid 80s), they did the main house first then the garage afterwards. The brickie works out where to put the trays based on the pitch of the garage roof of the garage that will be added later.

In my case and seemingly in the others that were built by Bovis around here, there was some 'confusion' and the trays have been put in at 1 or 2 brick levels too low - design of garage changed, floor slightly higher, whatever.

So with all the recent rain, the exterior wall of the house is absolutely saturated, water has run down the inside, hit the trays (as designed) but then the water has been exiting the tray under the level of the flashing and run down the inside of the garage wall rather than on to the garage roof.

Once he had seen that it was the same problem, I went up on to the roof with him and he showed me what was going on.

The fix is to remove the tiles and the flashing then remove 4 or so rows of bricks following the slope of the garage roof. After this you remove the old trays, add a couple of rows of bricks, put in the new trays, brick that up then put the tiles and flashing back on.

Apparently this is a pig of a job and is not high on a list of things that builders would like to do which means that getting someone to do it is going to be difficult and (probably) make a sizeable dent in the finances.

So its been doing this since the place was built. The previous owners must have known it was going on but I guess it only happens when there is a lot of rain over a short period of time.

As a short term fix, when the wall has dried out I am doing to put Thompsons Waterseal all over the brickwork above the garage to see if that helps and also get a few builders round to see what they think it will cost to sort it properly.

[Jonboy_t]

Damn! Sounds in depth (and expensive)!

Hopefully it's not the same problem with mine, but it's showing all the same signs as yours does

Hope you get sorted.

[KTF]

The garage is linked detached and if I look on the wall of the neighbours house I can see a row of different coloured cement following the shape of the garage roof and a couple of holes for the water to escape the trays.

On my side of the garage roof there is no sign of similar work having taken place nor escape holes for the trays.

This is odd as the neighbours wall doesnt get the rain at all and you would think that they would have done both sides of the garage roof at the same time as they would have had to use (now my) drive and garden for access anyway.

[Jonboy_t]

KTF said:

The garage is linked detached and if I look on the wall of the neighbours house I can see a row of different coloured cement following the shape of the garage roof and a couple of holes for the water to escape the trays.

On my side of the garage roof there is no sign of similar work having taken place nor escape holes for the trays.

This is odd as the neighbours wall doesnt get the rain at all and you would think that they would have done both sides of the garage roof at the same time as they would have had to use (now my) drive and garden for access anyway.

Mines link detatched too but I couldn't see anything on the neighbours side, either water or visible repairs. I'd guess that it would be something covered by the new house guarantee thing when that was valid, so maybe your neighbours was done within 10 years of it being built?

I wonder if Bovis might do something if it was a build defect? I imagine not as it's 25-odd years ago, but might be worth asking?

[KTF]

Jonboy_t said:

Mines link detatched too but I couldn't see anything on the neighbours side, either water or visible repairs. I'd guess that it would be something covered by the new house guarantee thing when that was valid, so maybe your neighbours was done within 10 years of it being built?

I wonder if Bovis might do something if it was a build defect? I imagine not as it's 25-odd years ago, but might be worth asking?

When I next see the neighbour I will ask what work they have had done (and when) to see if they had the same problem.

I can imagine the response from Bovis given the age of the property but no harm in writing them a letter/firing off an email I guess.

Should you want to come and compare my leak (fnaar) to yours then feel free

Edited by KTF on Monday 13th January 16:54

[Jonboy_t]

KTF said:

When I next see the neighbour I will ask what work they have had done (and when) to see if they had the same problem.

I can imagine the response from Bovis given the age of the property but no harm in writing them a letter/firing off an email I guess.

Should you want to come and compare my leak (fnaar) to yours then feel free

Nice one, cheers! Good luck with Bovis