Flat roofing in Cadnam and Bartley

First, we find the real fault. Ceilings stain a long way from where water gets in, so we work backwards along the falls rather than cutting where the mark is.

On a Cadnam and Bartley flat roof the cause is often a blocked outlet, or else a lifted seam, a cracked fold, a blister that has gone, a perished upstand or a trim that has lost its grip. Every one of those is an hours job, and we would rather do the hours job and tell you honestly what the roof has left in it.

Then the strip, and the look underneath. Once a surface is past bending it comes off in one go and the deck is exposed. Plywood and OSB usually survive. Chipboard on a Cadnam and Bartley roof of this age usually does not, and where it has swelled or gone soft it is replaced and the joists checked. This is also the only honest moment to talk about falls, because a roof that holds water was built wrong rather than worn out. Firrings, or insulation cut on a taper, put the run back in towards the outlet.

Then the build up. Given a bare deck we would far rather make it a warm roof than repeat a cold one. Rigid PIR goes above the deck with a vapour control layer below it, so the timber stays warm, the dew point sits outside it and interstitial condensation has no cold surface to form on. Insulation stuffed between joists with no air path is what rots a flat roof from beneath, and it is why BS 6229:2025 on flat roofs and, where there is a room underneath, Approved Document L, both send the insulation upwards.

Then the covering, and every edge of it. EPDM rubber for a plain rectangle, bonded down as one sheet. GRP fibreglass laid wet and cured into a single skin with its trims for anything that gets walked on. Torch on felt, three layers built up under a mineral cap sheet, for a roof broken up by upstands. Single ply, welded at the joints, for a large span. After that come the parts that actually leak. A kerb formed for a rooflight, a lantern, a Velux, a hatch, a soil pipe or a vent pipe. An upstand with a cover flashing chased in where the roof meets the wall. An apron in lead where lead is already there, and a cavity tray where the wall has a cavity. Parapet and coping made good, drip and edge trim set out, gutter, hopper and downpipe running clear. Two to three working days for a garage or a small extension.

Thomas prices a flat roof from on top of it, not from the drive. Round Cadnam and Bartley the usual candidates are a felted garage built onto a sixties or seventies house, a kitchen extension off the back, or the box dormer on a chalet bungalow, and plenty of those went down on chipboard.

On a Cadnam and Bartley roof he peels back an edge to see the boards, walks the deck feeling for soft spots. Your quote breaks out each part: getting up there, taking off the felt, deck boards if they need replacing, firrings to put a fall back, insulation, the new membrane, then every upstand, outlet and length of edge trim, and the skip.

A Cadnam and Bartley job sits on one written quote from start to finish. A single garage roof in Cadnam and Bartley is normally stripped and made watertight in a working day, so nothing sits open to the weather overnight. The drive gets swept before we go each evening, and the old felt goes away with us. If the deck is worse than that lifted corner suggested, we stop and show you, with a price.

A like for like re-cover counts as maintenance, and the Planning Portal guidance on roofs explains where that ends. Planning decisions sit with the National Park Authority, and permitted development inside a National Park is tighter than elsewhere, so a new extension or a change of roof shape is far more likely to need consent. Bartley has conservation area status and Cadnam village does not; the Park's map settles which applies to you. Laying a new deck over a habitable room is a building control job either way.

Water through a flat roof over a garage or kitchen needs a bucket first; then pull boxes, bikes and anything electrical clear. Call rather than using the website form.

A split in old felt, a burst blister or a membrane peeled back at the upstand lets rain straight onto the boards, and chipboard keeps drinking it long after the shower has passed. We make it watertight on that first call, with a weighted tarpaulin or a patch across the split, so what is underneath can dry while you decide on the proper job. Scheduled work is Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. If rain is getting in, phone, and should nobody answer you will get a call back as soon as we are free.

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The useful thing about a flat roof in a National Park is that most of them cannot be seen. A garage roof behind a hedge or an extension roof at the back of the house is invisible from the lane, and the Authority has no interest in what colour it is. That is worth knowing, because people assume every job inside the Park boundary turns into a planning exercise, and a straight re-cover does not.

Where it does matter is when the roof is part of what you see from outside. A garage that sits gable on to the road, an extension that reads across open ground, or a flat roof you can look down on from higher ground are all in view, and there materials and finish get proper scrutiny. So does anything that changes the shape of the building. National Park heritage and conservation guidance is the place to start, and if your own house is one of the listed buildings around Cadnam and Bartley then consent comes before any change of material, not after. Tell us the address when you ring and we will say plainly whether you are looking at a roofing job or a planning job first.

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