EPDM heat resistant?

JBR

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I have an extension, including garage and en suite bathroom, whose roof is leaking. Although slated, it has a very slight slope of less than 15 degrees. I realise that slates are unsuitable for such a shallow slope, but it has been like that since well before we bought the house. Needless to say, it is leaking and the leak is getting worse.

I had thought about having the slates replaced with boarding and EPDM covering. The problem is that there is a combi boiler flue in the middle of the roof. Would the heat from this melt the EPDM?
 
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Not if the terminal is as high above the roof as it should be, and surrounded by a suitable lead slate.
 
Thanks. I am assuming that you are referring to the plume. The outlet is about 4 feet above the surface of the roof. There was no mention of a lead slate, but I could ask the roofer.

Actually, I was thinking more about the heat from the body of the flue, although if I recall the inner pipe is for the hot outlet and the surrounding pipe for the air inlet.
 

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