Our Work

Every photograph on this site is one of the team's own jobs, taken on the roof. Filter by the kind of work, tap any picture to see it larger, and scroll down for a flat roof followed from a rotten deck to the finished job.

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Lead-lined flat section dressed into a tiled roof, welted joints along the edge

Bungalow re-roofed in red interlocking tiles, the render still being finished

Brown interlocking tiles with a roof window fitted into the new slope

Two roof windows fitted in a new brown tiled roof against a clear sky

Dry ridge going on over a new tiled slope, breathable membrane still showing on the far side

New hip roof in brown interlocking tiles with a dry hip system

Tiled hip roof finished around a dormer, dry ridge fixed along the top

Semi-detached house re-roofed in red tiles, seen from the garden

Clay plain tiles being laid across a pitched roof

New grey tiles and dry ridge on a hip roof, scaffold still up

Clay plain tiles in a mixed red blend on a new pitched roof

Hip roof over a new extension, dry ridge system on the hips, tiling finished

Felt flat roof with three upstand kerbs ready for rooflights

Dormer with new brown tiles laid around it and the ridge refixed

Dry ridge over the main roof with a dormer re-tiled beside it

Finished felt flat roof with three flush rooflights on a rear extension

Felt flat roof on a rear extension laid to a fall, lead detail at the tiled abutment

Felt flat roof with a long rooflight, laid against a brick elevation

New grey interlocking tiles with a roof vent fitted

Grey tiles and dry verge along a new gable

Grey tiles with new black fascia and guttering on an extension roof

Dry verge and grey tiles along a gable end with new fascia

Rear of a house with a new dark grey tiled roof

Semi-detached house with the roof re-tiled in red and the porch roof matched

Grey interlocking tiles laid on a new extension roof

Lead flashing dressed where a new tiled roof meets the wall

Tiles loaded out on battens over a breathable membrane, ready to lay

Grey tiled roof at a valley where the new tiles meet the neighbouring slope

New grey tiles and dry verge on a gable under a blue sky

Detached house with a new dark grey tiled roof

Rear of a house after a full re-roof in dark grey tiles

New dark grey tiled roof seen from above, with a roof window in the slope

Bungalow with a new grey tiled roof over the porch and the main house

Bungalow with a new dark grey tiled roof in low afternoon light

Worn felt flat roof with moss and blisters before the strip-off

Cracked and mossed felt at the edge of an old flat roof

Old felt flat roof, tired and holding water, before the work

New OSB3 deck fixed down on the flat roof

New OSB3 deck screwed down before the membrane goes on

Membrane laid across the new deck, edges trimmed to the fascia

Rotten boards lifted and the joists exposed

Stripped flat roof showing the joists before the new deck

New OSB deck going down over the insulated joists

Membrane laid and fixed across the new deck

The same flat roof finished in new membrane

Finished flat roof on a dormer with new edge trims

Flat roof finished on a rear extension, seen from above

Dormer flat roof in new membrane, edge trims fitted

Finished flat roofs on a dormer and an extension, from the scaffold

Two finished flat roofs on the back of a house

A Flat Roof From Rotten Deck to Finished

One rear extension roof, followed from the day we arrived to the day we left. This is what a flat roof done properly looks like underneath.

BeforeAfter

Drag the handle. Before on the left, after on the right, same roof, same spot.

Water in a flat roof deck spreads. The OSB or chipboard swells and loses its strength, the joists go at the ends where they sit in the wall, and the insulation becomes a wet blanket that does nothing. A covering-only job on a roof that needed a new deck fails again within a couple of years, and the second time the joists are in the bill too.

Flat roofing

1

What we found

An old felt roof that had been holding water for years. Moss on the surface, the laps lifting, a pond that never drained. From the bedroom window it looked tired. Underfoot it was soft, which is the tell that the deck has gone.

2

The edge

At the edge the felt had cracked and the water had been running down behind the fascia rather than into the gutter. The green on the trim is where the wall never dried.

3

Stripped to the joists

The covering and the deck came off together because the boards were rotten. With the joists exposed we could see which ends had gone soft where they sat in the wall, and replace them.

4

Insulation between the joists

Insulation fitted between the joists before the new deck goes on. The room below stops losing its heat through the roof, and the deck sits on a dry, even base.

5

The new deck

OSB3 boards screwed down across the joists, laid to a fall so water runs to the outlet instead of sitting in the middle. This is the stage the old roof never had done properly.

6

The membrane

Membrane laid across the deck and fixed, edges trimmed to the fascia, upstands turned up against the wall. Nothing left to chance at the edges, because the edges are where flat roofs fail.

7

Finished

The same roof from the same spot as the first photograph. New trims, a clean fall to the outlet, and a ceiling below that will stay dry.

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