Flat roofing in Hyde

The garage or the store comes first. The weakest roof on most plots in Hyde. A shallow deck of chipboard or plain boarding over light joists, and a built up felt covering gone hard, split along a lap, with the odd blister standing clear of the boards.

If the boards are dry it takes a new covering straight off, either EPDM rubber in one sheet with bonded laps or a three layer torch on system finished in a mineral cap sheet. Where they are not, new OSB goes down first. A ventilated cold roof is fine over a car or a mower, insulation between the joists and air moving above it. A fresh edge trim with a drip on it goes round the open sides. Single ply is welded rather than bonded and only makes sense across a longer range of garages.

The link between the old house and the newer part. A narrow run of flat tying a cottage to an addition, and the least forgiving roof on the list. It is almost all edge: an upstand against the old wall on one side, a second abutment on the other, a scrap of covering in between and one outlet doing all of the work. The wall is usually soft, so the flashing goes on as lead over an apron rather than a chase cut in deep. GRP fibreglass suits the shape, because it is formed in place and leaves no lap or seam to fail in a corner.

The extension with a room under it. Kitchen, sitting room, sometimes a bedroom, and here the build up matters more than the covering does. Warm damp air off a kettle reaches a cold deck and condenses on the underside, and the interstitial damp that follows rots boards from below with nothing showing on top. The answer is a warm roof: PIR laid over the deck, the vapour control layer under it, the dew point pushed outside the timber. BS 6229 gives the build and Approved Document L the standard. New deck, new firrings and a rooflight formed round runs to two or three working days.

The small roof behind a parapet. Covering turned up the back of a low wall with a coping sitting on top. Water gets in at the coping or at the outlet. The coping lets water into the wall behind the upstand, or the single outlet blocks and the roof turns into a tank. So the coping is re-bedded, a cavity tray goes in behind it where one can, the upstand is carried high enough to be worth having, and the outlet is cleared and checked against the area feeding it. Standing water on one of these is a fall problem and firrings or tapered insulation put it back. Where a lantern, a skylight, a Velux, a hatch, a soil pipe or a vent pipe comes through, each gets its own kerb or collar.

Measuring the area takes a minute. The price depends on what lies under the covering. Reaching it. A garage standing away from the house is usually a tower job. A link roof tight to a two storey wall needs scaffold for as long as the deck is exposed. At the far end of a yard, every roll may have to be carried in. The HSE's work at height rules are why access is priced on its own.

The deck itself. Dry ply or boards will take a new covering. Chipboard that has soaked for years, or ply that flexes underfoot, has to be replaced. From the ground there is no telling, which is why a corner is lifted before the price is written. It makes the biggest difference to the figure.

Where water sits. Ponding means the fall has gone or was never there, and firrings put it back; the British Standard for flat roofs explains how falls should work. Under trees, leaves clog outlets and gutters, so the drainage route needs as much thought as the membrane.

Upstands and trims. Where the roof meets an old wall, and at every edge trim and outlet, the work is slow and priced item by item. That is also where leaks start.

Ask other firms which system and how many layers they mean, whether the deck is new or covered over, whether the falls are corrected, how upstands are finished, and whether scaffold and skip are priced in.

Our base in Boscombe is 12.7 miles from Hyde. We work across the village, Frogham, Gorley, Ogdens and the SP6 lanes above Fordingbridge, where planning sits with the National Park Authority. You are dealing with Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719. Before you book a visit in Hyde, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.

It is Thomas Hannen's company, and he comes out, lifts the edge of the covering and writes your price himself. On Checkatrade there is a 10 out of 10 from a verified customer. The site visit is free, as is the written quote, with every item on it.

Most repairs in Hyde need no application at all. What decides whether a change to the outside of your house does is who the council is, whether a conservation area or a listing applies, and whether the place sits in a protected landscape.