Norfolk
Flat roof replacement in Downham Market
EPDM rubber roofing across Downham Market, Denver, Stoke Ferry and PE33 and PE38.
Downham Market and the fen villages around it have a lot of single-storey extension and a lot of flat roof to go with it. Bungalow rear extensions, garages, and the flat-roofed estates put up in the sixties and seventies when the town grew around the station.
Fen roofs move
Ground out here is peat and silt, and buildings on it settle unevenly for decades. On a flat roof that shows up as ponding where the fall has flattened out, and as splits in a felt covering that has no give in it. EPDM is a rubber membrane with real elasticity, so it tolerates that movement in a way three-layer felt does not.
Fixing the fall while we are up there
If water is standing on the roof after two dry days, the fall is wrong and no covering will fix it. We can firr the deck to reinstate a proper fall as part of the job. It costs a little more and it is the difference between a roof and a paddling pool.
What you get
- Old covering lifted and the deck inspected properly
- New 18mm ply deck, firred to fall where the old one had none
- Single-piece cold-bonded EPDM with no field seams
- Aluminium trims and a proper outlet, not a hole and some mastic
- 15 year guarantee
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What our customers say
"Re-roofed our semi in Gaywood. Quoted £8,900 including the scaffold and that is exactly what we paid. Found a rotten wall plate on day two, rang me from the roof with a photo and gave me a price for it before touching it. Rare."
"Ridge came off in the January gale. Rang at nine, somebody was here by two and it was sheeted before the rain came back. Proper repair done the following week."
"Paid for the survey because I had two roofers telling me I needed a new roof. Report came back saying the roof had another ten years in it and the actual problem was the chimney flashing. Cost me £180 to save several thousand."
"Very good work on the flat roof over the kitchen and a fair price. Only reason for four rather than five is we waited about three weeks to get started, though we were told that up front."
"Our place at Heacham is about as exposed as it gets. They specified stainless fixings and clipped the whole perimeter, explained why, and it has been through two winters without losing a tile."
"Chimney repointed on a listed house on the North Brink. Used lime mortar without me having to ask, which is more than the last lot did. Conservation officer was happy."
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