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We have bought a house end of last year and need some help with the Roof.
During the house survey, the main roof was summaries by the surveyor in "in acceptable condition, without any major concerns".
And a eventually roof re-covering works will be needed since the roof is Original to the property and thus over 60 years old.
With the timeline being : "don’t think this will be any time soon, but you can start to budget and plan for the next 10 years."
We got Solar panels fitted this month however it didn't go well and there are two breaks in the felt now, with number of tiles cracked and the brackets fitted between the tiles have gaps between the tiles as no flashing was fitted and neither the tile cut to adjust to the bracket.
The original roof is double pitched, with double roman clay tiles and bitumen sarking felt.
Would appreciate advice and what we need to be paying attention to as this is our first house so not very experienced with this scenario.
Additional context -
The house is a semi-detached 2-story house
The house has 2 two chimney on either side (one on the party wall on the right and the other on the non party wall on the left side)
The one on the right is actively used and as a log burner. The chimney breast to the left side ground floor has been removed but remains in place at first floor level.
Our original plan when buying the property was to make the ceiling vaulted towards the front (about 1/3rd of the total width) and add 2 Velux windows to bring light in through throughout an open staircase into the living room below and have an open study for the family on the first floor.
Open questions need help with to figure the best path forward
How to decide between making just spot fixes for the felt, complete re-covering or recovering along with re-tiling.
If re-tiled for making like to like replacements would is there a double roman clay option or just concrete? And would this mean involving a structural engineer if we can't find clay tiles to replace?
If any major work is done to the roof if it will make sense to remove the left side chimney breast completely from the first floor as well.
Similarly would assume to pull the time for the partial vaulted ceiling and velux windows additions at the same time to the roof as well to do it all together would make sense?
During the house survey, the main roof was summaries by the surveyor in "in acceptable condition, without any major concerns".
And a eventually roof re-covering works will be needed since the roof is Original to the property and thus over 60 years old.
With the timeline being : "don’t think this will be any time soon, but you can start to budget and plan for the next 10 years."
We got Solar panels fitted this month however it didn't go well and there are two breaks in the felt now, with number of tiles cracked and the brackets fitted between the tiles have gaps between the tiles as no flashing was fitted and neither the tile cut to adjust to the bracket.
The original roof is double pitched, with double roman clay tiles and bitumen sarking felt.
Would appreciate advice and what we need to be paying attention to as this is our first house so not very experienced with this scenario.
Additional context -
The house is a semi-detached 2-story house
The house has 2 two chimney on either side (one on the party wall on the right and the other on the non party wall on the left side)
The one on the right is actively used and as a log burner. The chimney breast to the left side ground floor has been removed but remains in place at first floor level.
Our original plan when buying the property was to make the ceiling vaulted towards the front (about 1/3rd of the total width) and add 2 Velux windows to bring light in through throughout an open staircase into the living room below and have an open study for the family on the first floor.
Open questions need help with to figure the best path forward
How to decide between making just spot fixes for the felt, complete re-covering or recovering along with re-tiling.
If re-tiled for making like to like replacements would is there a double roman clay option or just concrete? And would this mean involving a structural engineer if we can't find clay tiles to replace?
If any major work is done to the roof if it will make sense to remove the left side chimney breast completely from the first floor as well.
Similarly would assume to pull the time for the partial vaulted ceiling and velux windows additions at the same time to the roof as well to do it all together would make sense?
