Flat roofing in Lytchett Matravers

Most of it is repair work. Lytchett Matravers estate roofs of this vintage fail in predictable places. A fold that has cracked. A blister risen and burst. A lap that has let go. An edge trim whose fixings have worked out. An outlet packed with moss off the tiles above it.

On a Lytchett Matravers roof each of those is hours rather than days, and the blocked outlet is behind more stained ceilings than the rest put together. We find where water is entering by following the falls, because the mark inside is never above the hole outside.

When it is past repair. A covering that has gone hard has nothing left to give and it comes off. What replaces it depends on the roof. One bonded sheet of EPDM rubber over a plain garage, with no seam anywhere across the middle of it. GRP fibreglass where the roof gets walked on, laid wet and cured to a single skin with its own trims. Torch on felt, three layers under a mineral cap sheet, where the roof is cut up with upstands. Single ply, welded, on the larger spans. Two to three working days covers a garage or a small extension.

Deck and insulation. Plywood, OSB or chipboard underneath, and it is nearly always the chipboard that has softened. Firm boards are covered over, soft boards come out, and the joists get checked while they are bare. Ponding tells you the fall is wrong or the outlet has been built over, and firrings or tapered insulation fix that properly. If the deck is coming off anyway we would rather rebuild as a warm roof, with the insulation above the deck in rigid PIR and a vapour control layer beneath, keeping the timber above the dew point and leaving interstitial condensation nowhere to form. These started life as cold roofs and that is exactly why they rotted, which is the case BS 6229:2025 on flat roofs and Approved Document L both make.

The detail round the edge. An upstand and a chased cover flashing where the roof meets the house. A lead apron where lead is already there. A cavity tray where the wall has a cavity. Parapets and copings treated as roof rather than as wall. A kerb built for a rooflight, a lantern, a Velux, a hatch, a soil pipe or a vent pipe. Then drip, edge trim, gutter, hopper and downpipe, all of which have to work or nothing above them matters.

Before Thomas puts a figure on a flat roof, he wants to know what the deck is like, so where he can he lifts a corner of the felt and looks. On Lytchett Matravers houses of this age the flat roof is usually over a garage, a rear extension or a porch, and each gets priced on what is really under it.

Your written quote splits out the tower or scaffold, taking off the old felt, replacement boards or new firrings where the fall is wrong, insulation, the membrane itself, and every upstand, outlet and edge trim, with the skip last. The laying is on the same quote as the rest.

On a Lytchett Matravers roof we only take off as much as can be sealed again before dark, so whatever is underneath stays dry overnight. Felt and offcuts go straight onto the lorry and the drive is swept. Soft joists under the deck mean a pause: you see the photos and a figure, and you decide.

Re-covering a flat roof you already have is maintenance, not development, and Planning Portal guidance covers the limits. Renewing most of a roof over a heated room is a matter for building control, handled by building notice or an application with full plans, and the insulation has to be brought up. No conservation area covers Lytchett Matravers. A listed building needs listed building consent from Dorset Council before anything else.

Water through a flat roof usually comes from a split in the felt, a blister that has burst, or an upstand that has pulled away from the wall. Put something under the drip, and if the ceiling is bulging keep people out of that room.

Phone us instead of filling in the form. Our first job at the house is to get the roof covered, with a temporary patch or a sheet weighted clear of the edges, and we check how far the water has gone into the deck. Then you get a written price for the permanent job. Planned work is booked Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. Ring about a leak, and if the call goes unanswered it is because we are on a roof, so we phone you as soon as we can.

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When a road was built in one go, the flat roofs on it went on in one go too, from the same rolls, laid the same way. So it is common around Lytchett Matravers for two or three neighbours to be dealing with the same problem in the same winter.

That is worth knowing for a practical reason: if the roof next door has just been done, ask what they found under the covering. It is a fair guide to what is under yours, and it saves a lot of guessing.

It matters more where garages sit in a linked run rather than standing alone. Then one roof often drains across or into the next, the upstand between them is shared, and doing your half in isolation can push water onto somebody else's deck or leave a joint that nobody owns. If that is your set up, tell us when you ring. We will look at the whole run, say plainly where your roof stops and the neighbour's starts, and price only your side while making sure the junction between them is left watertight rather than left open.

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