Ive had a new roof installed and the results are really disappointing. The house is a victorian semi which had the original slate roof. A reroof was long over due. The roofer I chose said we could use the best slate from the old roof on the front of the property and use spanish for the back. He started at the back and I had no real reason for concern - other than he was turning up for at 10am each day and leaving at 1pm. He told me it would take 5-7 days. Well the first week went by and he was still striping down the roof. At this point we had some pretty bad weather (4 weeks ago) and my sons room had a huge leak as did the bedroom at the front of the house. He had felted it but clearly this wasn't done correctly.
This was just the start. After 5 weeks he told me on Thursday he was finished with the main roof. Before paying him I went onto the roof to have a look. I was more than a bit surprised to be able to pull slates out from the valley. Not only that the cuts were terrible. The mortar that had been used for the ridge tiles had not been cleaned up so there are just huge dollops on the tiles. Also the edging of the tiles is so untidy. When I phoned him on Thursday evening he said he would come round on saturday and address my concerns. He spent an hour with a tube of grip fill and blobbed it all over the ridge tiles, but did nothing to neaten the cuts. Please can you take a look at the pictures and let me know your thoughts, if there are any other concerns and how I can go about resolving this.
Thanks
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This was just the start. After 5 weeks he told me on Thursday he was finished with the main roof. Before paying him I went onto the roof to have a look. I was more than a bit surprised to be able to pull slates out from the valley. Not only that the cuts were terrible. The mortar that had been used for the ridge tiles had not been cleaned up so there are just huge dollops on the tiles. Also the edging of the tiles is so untidy. When I phoned him on Thursday evening he said he would come round on saturday and address my concerns. He spent an hour with a tube of grip fill and blobbed it all over the ridge tiles, but did nothing to neaten the cuts. Please can you take a look at the pictures and let me know your thoughts, if there are any other concerns and how I can go about resolving this.
Thanks
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