I wanted a bit of advice, I have had a look through the posts and have found how to fix a roof with pooling but can't find anything on how to deal with a roofer who we think hasn't done a great job!
We had a new felt roof put on our flat garage roof, a couple of days later we had some pretty bad rain which resulted in quite a large amount of water which didn't disappear in the recommended 48 hours. Although from reading posts this is pretty standard, my issue is with the roofer we used! It looks as though there isn't enough gradient on the roof for it to drain, am i naive in the idea that as a roofer, the guy we got in should have guessed this and informed us, it could have been rectified before he layed the tar and felt! He is claiming it is not his fault, but as neither myself nor my husband are in the trade or know anything about it, how could we have know the boards were not of the correct gradient!!! Obviously if we lived in a hot country this would not be an issues, unfortunately the UK rains for most of the year and surely water sitting on a flat roof for that amount of time can't be good!
Sorry for the ramble but it is seriously frustrating, to top it off the roofer is now not returning our calls. Is this something i should pursue or is it one of those thing you live and learn!!!!
We had a new felt roof put on our flat garage roof, a couple of days later we had some pretty bad rain which resulted in quite a large amount of water which didn't disappear in the recommended 48 hours. Although from reading posts this is pretty standard, my issue is with the roofer we used! It looks as though there isn't enough gradient on the roof for it to drain, am i naive in the idea that as a roofer, the guy we got in should have guessed this and informed us, it could have been rectified before he layed the tar and felt! He is claiming it is not his fault, but as neither myself nor my husband are in the trade or know anything about it, how could we have know the boards were not of the correct gradient!!! Obviously if we lived in a hot country this would not be an issues, unfortunately the UK rains for most of the year and surely water sitting on a flat roof for that amount of time can't be good!
Sorry for the ramble but it is seriously frustrating, to top it off the roofer is now not returning our calls. Is this something i should pursue or is it one of those thing you live and learn!!!!