Change of roof material.

[badboyburt]

Early 70s mid terraced house with very shallow roof, currently has roman concrete tiles on, had them all removed and new felts, batten, vents fitted around 12 years ago, but recently noticed water ingression on the lowest part of the roof so could be coming in from god knows where, the roof is pent from back to front, rear being 2 storey front being single storey.

My question is do I need to have planning permission to remove the concrete and fit Marley Eternit fibre cement tiles ?

As the neighbours are also concrete I will obviously need to install 2 dry verges between each property.

Any info would be grateful.

[badboyburt]

Any info ?

[badboyburt]

Thank you for the info, it will be lighter but the current roof is red in colour and the eternits are black/grey so colour would be an issue.

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roofer said:

Have you checked the eaves felt ? If they didn't fit a 5U or eaves tray, it's possible it's rotted out by now. There shouldn't be anything wrong with a Roman after 12 years.

An Eternit fibre cement will sit lower than adjacent roofs and look absolutely dire.

Apologies the romans were set aside and refitted.
Felt was a breathable one and an eave support tray was fitted.

Would cross battening not help with the sitting lower issue.

V6 I will make some enquiries in the new year with the local authority, namely Basildon Council and I will also post some pictures on here tomorrow for reference.

Thanks for the info.

[badboyburt]

Typical always the way.

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roofer said:

If you want an eye on it over the Xmas break, and you have a ladder handy, let me know. I'm only in Danbury, no great drama to Wizz over your way.

Thanks appreciate the offer. Ill get some pictures up and see what you guys think.

[badboyburt]

Few pictures of the roof,





You can see the eaves support tray in this shot,


This shot shows the fall of the roof from the back of the property to the front,

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V6Pushfit said:

Looking at the photos again, a change in material is going to make the roofs look quite messy. I'm leaning towards suggesting a strip and relay onto double felt, it's also going to be cheaper.

Thanks for the advice gents, I am getting water ingression where the upper roof meets the top of the skylight and then the lower roof leaks somewhere but pours out internally above the window you see at the front, currently has a few bowls collecting the water.

Looking at it again the 2nd row of tiles looks wonky kind of laying back slightly and it doesn't look like there is enough felt over the eaves tray, they fitted new fascia which I think might be slightly taller than the one removed which seems to be kicking up the bottom few rows.

Its doing my head in if im honest lol

Looking at the eternits again they wouldn't be suitable for this roof so it looks like I will have to have it stripped again and double felted like you say V6, then refit the tiles and hope it works.

What would I be looking at to carry that out, just ballpark figures.

[badboyburt]

Im the 2nd house in so only have a small eaves section to the left of my front door above a side window.

[badboyburt]

Cheers V6 appreciate the advice.

[badboyburt]

paulwirral said:

That second course of tiles is almost lying flat above the window , and it looks like felt between the skylights , I've only just worked out how to enlarge the pic on this I pad thing , I'm better with hand tools !
Get those checked by a decent roofer first before you start throwing money away .

I only noticed that row today so I will have to get it checked.

As for the felted area It looks solid but I have water coming in along the top left hand corner of the large skylight on the left. Only a dribble even in heavy downpour.

You think that's bad with the ipad, it took me an hour to work out how to get the pictures off my phone lol