Flat roofing in Redlynch

Repairs. Cracks at a fold, blisters that have burst, laps that have opened, trims that have loosened and outlets that have blocked. On a Redlynch roof like this each of those is a job of hours, not days.

The blocked outlet is the commonest of the lot. We work back along the falls to find where water is really entering, because on a bungalow it can travel a long way across a ceiling before it shows itself.

Re-covering a single storey roof. When the surface has hardened past use it comes off. EPDM rubber bonds down as one sheet, which suits the plain rectangle over a garage. GRP fibreglass is laid wet and cures to a single skin with its own trims, so it takes traffic and a lot of edge detail. Torch on felt, three layers built up under a mineral cap sheet, handles a roof cut about with upstands. Single ply, welded at the joints, is for the big ones. Two to three working days for a garage or a small extension.

The deck, and how thick the new roof ends up. Plywood, OSB or chipboard under there, and the chipboard is usually what has gone soft. Firm decking is covered over, soft decking comes out and the joists get inspected. Water lying about after rain means no fall, or an outlet that has been buried, and firrings or tapered insulation correct it. Then the question that really matters on a low Redlynch bungalow roof: warm or cold. Rigid PIR above the deck with a vapour control layer under it keeps the timber above the dew point and shuts out interstitial condensation, which is what BS 6229:2025 on flat roofs and Approved Document L both want. It also raises the finished surface, so we measure the height available before committing to it.

Abutments and openings. An upstand tall enough to matter, with a cover flashing chased into the wall or dressed under the tiles above it. A lead apron where lead is already there. A cavity tray where the wall has a cavity. Parapet and coping made good. A kerb built for a rooflight, a lantern, a Velux, a hatch, a soil pipe or a vent pipe. Drip and edge trim, and the gutter, hopper and downpipe below, which on a low roof is often the same gutter the main roof already uses.

Thomas gets onto the roof if it is safe, walks it to feel for soft spots, and cuts back a small corner of the covering to see what the deck is made of and whether it is dry.

His written quote then shows the tower or scaffold, taking up the old felt, replacing any rotten boards and fitting firrings, the insulation, the new covering, the detail at each upstand and outlet, the edge trims, and the skip. From the first board to the trim it is one firm's job to answer for.

In Redlynch, a village of post-war bungalows and older cottages, the flat roof is usually over an extension, a garage beside the drive or a dormer. A garage normally comes off a tower. Where the plot falls away, the tower or scaffold goes up on the lower side with proper packing under it. The roof is never left open overnight, the old covering goes away with us, and the drive is swept every day. If the deck turns out rotten further in than the corner showed, Thomas shows you a photo of it with the extra cost written down, and nothing is replaced until you agree.

Redlynch is under Wiltshire Council. Re-covering in the same form is maintenance, permitted development covers it, and the Planning Portal guidance shows where that stops. Raising the roof line, or turning the space under it into a habitable room, brings in building control through a building notice or an application with full plans, and so does stripping most of the covering over a heated room, because that renovates a thermal element and the insulation has to meet Part L. There is no conservation area over the village. Where the building is listed, start with other permissions you may require.

Ring us for this one rather than using the form. Once a flat roof has cracked, bubbled or peeled back from the wall, rain soaks into the boards and then the ceiling, and it keeps dripping for hours after it stops.

Clear the room below, and if you can see the roof from an upstairs window, check the outlet, because a blocked one can flood a roof that is otherwise fine. The first visit puts a temporary cover on and gets the room dry, and the permanent job is priced once we know how much of the deck is wet. Scheduled work runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. If the phone goes unanswered, we ring you back as soon as we are able.

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A single storey extension on a Redlynch bungalow meets the main roof low down, often only just above the gutter line. That leaves very little room for the covering to turn up the wall, and an upstand that is too short is the single commonest reason these roofs leak. Water driven up the slope, or backed up behind a blocked outlet, only has to rise a little to get over the top of it and straight onto the ceiling below.

That shapes how a new roof meets the wall in Redlynch. First, if the existing upstand is already marginal, building the new roof up thicker with insulation above the deck makes it shorter still, so the height has to be measured and thought about before a system is chosen rather than discovered on the second day. Sometimes the right answer is insulating below the deck instead, with the vapour control layer detailed properly. Second, the flashing at that junction has to be chased and dressed rather than sealed over, because on a low abutment there is no second line of defence. Ask any quote how tall the upstand will be and how the flashing is fixed. It tells you a lot.

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