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How easy is it to fit a new cavity tray into an existing brick house wall? A roofer has raised the roof level of a flat roof adjoining the wall above the level of the existing cavity tray

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We have had a similar problem with a roofer. We were on the brink of taking him to small claims court before he agreed to partially redo our roof. If you get a survey done, you need to get a particular type which is admissable in the small claims court (look on small claims website). If you...

To answer previous question, the black stuff is emergency leak spray which we put on in desperation. The day after we'd done it the roofer came back to redo part of the flashing, some of which is shown in the photos, so we never got to find out if it stopped the leak. When the new roof was...

This roofer has glowing references from Permaroof on his website but I do wish we had got another roofer. He tells us he has put thousands of flashings in so he knows what he is doing!!!!

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After recent heavy rain we used Thompsons emergency roof leak over flashing pointing but roofer came next day and redid another section of flashing.

Pictures to follow but the flat roof is on a garage/kitchen attached to a square box of a brick house. Roofer originally used metal flashing which kept coming out. Insisted he use lead flashing and it was OK for 5 months but in heavy rain now leaks. He has done it again yesterday but waiting for...

Had a cold deck flat roof replaced with warm deck Sep 2010. It leaked from the beginning. Roofer has redone it several times but, after a while, the seal around the flashing fails and we're back to square 1. Roofer using mortar on flashing and freely admits he doesn't know what to do. Any...