Flat Roofing Repair News

The images below are from a recent flat roof project that The Flat Roof Recovery Company carried out at a house in Sittingbourne, Kent.

The existing flat roof was originally covered with green mineral felt and, as you can see, a significant amount of moss! We quickly got to work and soon had the flat roof surface cleaned and cleared of debris. After this the total felt flat roof surface was encapsulated using the 3M Skotchkote Roofing System. The waterproofing system was continued up and onto the parapet walls to fully encapsulate all potential problem areas.

The pictures below are of one of our latest flat roof repair jobs for a roof on a property in Lewisham in Greater London.

The roof in question was approximately 200 M2 and was constructed of stramit boards and asphalt. The roof was leaking severely with numerous cracks. The parapet walls were also badly in need of repair with crumbling brickwork that needed to be replaced.

Firstly we cleared and cleaned the flat roof area and repaired the numerous cracks in the substrate with exterior grade latex. We then rendered the parapet walls to complete the repair. The whole roof, including the parapet walls, was then fully encapsulated using the 3M Skotchkote Roofing System to give a fuly bonded, completely waterproofed finish.

The images in this post show a flat roofing project that The Flat Roof Recovery Company carried out recently on a domestic flat roof in Gravesend, Kent.

The roof had formerly been covered with fibreglass (GRP roofing) but during a particularly bad storm the glass fibre flat roof blew off.  The roof was blown some distance by the wind and eventually ended up on Gravesend high street!  The roof size to be re-roofed was approximately 250 M2, the Flat Roof Recovery Company re-boarded the roof and finished off by waterproofing the boards with the Sealolfex cold applied liquid roofing system.  The home owners can now rest assured that their roof is not going to blow away again and they have a roof that will give them peace of mind for years to come.

The latest project that the Flat Roof Recovery Company has completed was an interesting re-roof project in a conservation area in Sevenoaks., Kent. We were asked to provide a finish that was to give the effect of the roof being covered with lead when in actual fact it was to be waterproofed using the cutting edge 3M Scotchkote Liquid Roofing System.

The roofing system was built up in layers with a CSM Fiberglass matting being added as an extra layer of reinforcement. The finished roof has received an impressive guarantee of a full 25 years. (images 1,2,3) show the Embedment coating being applied to the roof boards which have had wooden mop rolls added to give the finished flat roof the distinctive appearance of lead. Having lead on your roof can sometimes be very attractive to thieves.  If a theft occurs untold damage can be cause to the roof costing untold amounts to repair and significantly increasing insurance premiums.

The 3M Scotchkote Roofing System, when fully and professionally installed, gives the appearance of lead with the added bonus of zero value to any would be thieves. As I’m sure you can see the finished appearance of this flat roof 3M Scotchkote does indeed give a brilliant lead look finish to this roof. (images 4,5,6,7).

Here is a domestic flat roofing project involving a sagging Dormer roof that The Flat Roof Recovery Company recently carried out at a house in the South of England.

The Dormer roof in question had recently had new upvc windows fitted to it. Over the course of a few months the homeowner noticed that the ceilings in her sons’ bedroom was beginning to crack, on further investigation they noticed that the Dormer roof had started to sag. We were called in to establish the cause of the sagging. We removed the upvc fascia boards and trims etc and were astonished to find that the main support beam had been almost cut through to accomodate the new upvc windows (Images 1 & 2).

We propped the ceiling up in the boys bedroom and set about replacing the main support beam  (Images 3 & 4) While we were there the homeowner had us fully refurbish the flat roof using the Sealoflex Waterproofing System (Images 5 & 6).  Another satisfied customer

The Flat Roof Recovery Company’s latest job was a domestic felt flat roof repair project close to home, just down the road in Maidstone, Kent. We were asked to repair a mineral felt covered flat roof which was in a very bad condition and was badly in need of some attention.

The original felt roof was overlayed with the rubber based, single component waterproofing system, Sealoflex Fibreseal. Fibreseal has polyester fibres borne in the rubber compound which, once cured, will form a seamless rubber membrane across the roof’s surface that is not only incredibly durable, but also looks great. From the pictures below you can see what a vast improvement the newly recovered roof is.

Solar gain on older flat roof coverings is well documented problem. Solar gain is the heating effect of solar radiation on the flat roof surface. This heating effect will, in time, cause the surface, an asphalt flat roof for example, to deteriorate and slump causing cracks and fissures which will inevitably lead to water ingress.  Modern roof coverings can help to minimize solar gain and significantly increase the integrity of the roof surface, maximizing durability and increasing the roof’s life.

Below are some pictures of a recent Flat Roof Recovery domestic roofing project for a house in Chelsea, West London.  We were asked to recover an asphalt roof that was badly in need of repair. We overlayed the existing asphalt roof using the Sealoflex system and finished in white to help to reflect the heat and UV rays which cause solar gain, significantly extending the potential life of the roof.

Find out more about how we can overlay existing flat roof surfaces to give your flat roof a new lease of life.

In July of 2009 Flat Roof Recovery was asked by a major international finance company to quote for a job that they wanted carrying out at their prestigious European headquarters in Brighton, East Sussex. This commercial flat roofing job was amongst one of the biggest balcony waterproofing repair and recovery projects that we had ever carried out and the logistics of covering such a space were pretty taxing!

The job was to waterproof a balcony that was over 1000 m2, a job that we completed during the month of July 2009 using the Sealofex liquid waterproofing system. In the end this job turned out to be an incredibly rewarding challenge that tested our roofing skills. A job of this size is a rare challenge and a bit different to our usual bread and butter domestic flat roofing jobs.

Welcome to our flat roof repair blog!

Thanks for visiting the Flat Roof Recovery blog.  Over the coming months we will endeavour to keep you up to date with all of the flat roof repair jobs that we carry out around the South East of the UK.  We are a small, dynamic and forward looking roofing contractor based in Faversham, Kent that carry out flat roof repair and construction jobs, both large and small, for both domestic and commercial clients.

Flat roof recovery company specialise in recovered flat roofs the but we also carry out new build flat roofing, balcony waterproofing decking and asbestos encapsulation.

We will be using this blog to showcase our quality roofing work and to hopefully give you an insight into the flat roof repair business.  We’ll also give you some hints and tips along the way!   Be sure to come back regularly or, even better, subscribe to our RSS feed to keep up to date with our posts. Thanks for stopping by.