Warm Flat Roof Construction Explained

Warm Flat Roof Construction Explained

Hopefully this video will help explain the difference between a warm flat roof construction and a cold flat roof construction. This video shows detailed drawings on how a warm flat roof is constructed. I link to two other videos, one on cold flat … [Read more...]

Warm roof cold roof venting

Warm flat roof Ealing

Customer Question Roof access is easy, stable and safe. It takes a few minutes to rig the ladder, but this is not feasible if it's raining at the time because rain would enter the bedroom thro' the french doors.  Front of house scaffolding … [Read more...]

Venting a cold roof.

flat roof joists

Customers Question Further to my call to you yesterday, thank you so much for offering to look at a couple of photos and speak to me about this. Here is one, and I will follow with a couple more. As I mentioned, we have been through one thing … [Read more...]

New mineral felt roof Ealing

Questions/Comments: Hello, hope you can help.  We have a small flat roof at our property in Ealing the bedroom below it was absolutely freezing this winter - we only moved in recently.  The roof itself is in good condition and has … [Read more...]

EPDM rubber roofing getting a bad name

EPDM rubber over extension roof

Luckily for the owner of this property in Radlett WD7 he had held back some of the payments tot he builders and he is going to use this to have the problems  to the roof ratified. Its alway hard to seal around a pipe on a roof that why we … [Read more...]

Enquiry – Old Mineral Felt Roof

roofer harrow

Hi Steven, I have attached a Powerpoint document containing the sizes and some images. I have converted the garage into a games room and the ceiling has damp patches and the fuse has blown for the lighting. The roof has a drainage hole in one … [Read more...]

Thermal bridging from screws on a flat roof

Questions/Comments: Hello Steve, Just came across some of your YouTube videos, brilliant. I bet your company cleans up in London... fair play! Can I be cheeky and ask a question. I'm doing a small warm roof on my old outside toilet. I want to … [Read more...]

Insulating a flat roof with tapered insulation.

Tapered insulation new flat roof

After a lot of work organising and ordering the tapered insulation from Kingspan, it finally got delivered to site. Not only are we insulating this old felt roof, but we are also reversing the way the water drains on the roof; one side of the … [Read more...]

Solar-protective paint for asphalt.

Lead flashing asphalt roof islington

This old lead flashing is coming away from the asphalt. When the sun heats the old asphalt it softens, and the weight of the lead pulls from under and starts to slide down into the gutter. On this flat roof the decking under the roof is concrete, so … [Read more...]

Problem with GRP roof

Flat roof decking over a new GRP flat roof

Could you give me some advice? 7 years ago we bought a 3 storey house in Pimlico with the intention of retiring there sometime around 2014. One of the attractions of the property was that the entire roof was a roof garden of some 45.1 square … [Read more...]

GRP Flat Roofing

crack in GRP flat roof

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Gareth C wrote: Hi Steven Having viewed most of your videos on your YouTube channel, I'm wondering if you cover the Portsmouth area for a small flat roof covering? I'm planning a 7m x 3m extension utilising a … [Read more...]

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