Hi
Have had a leak into our 1st floor bathroom for several months, but we haven't managed to catch in the act over the summer - everything has looked dry when we 've gone up to the converted loft.
Lots of rain today and the bathroom ceiling is dripping through - and a give-away damp patch in the eaves cupboard above. I pulled away some damp plasterboard:
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The water is dripping down where the celotex type roof insulation ends, coming from between the felt and the celotex. Looks isolated to the area where the buckets are.
The wall with the radiator on is below the side of a small dormer housing an en-suite:
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Some pictures of the same side of the dormer with the lead and tiling:
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The green slime is new, presumably caused by an infestation of pigeons that have been living under neighbours solar panels for the last couple of years. The panels have been sealed up with chicken wire now and the pigeons have gone. If you look carefully at the 2nd and 3rd dormer pic you can see that lots of pieces/tags of lead have been lifted up on the lead adjacent to each row of tiles each - never noticed this before. Could this have been done by the pigeons and is it likely to have caused a leak? Should i fold them up/down?
Any comments on how to investigate / fix this leak much appreciated!
Have had a leak into our 1st floor bathroom for several months, but we haven't managed to catch in the act over the summer - everything has looked dry when we 've gone up to the converted loft.
Lots of rain today and the bathroom ceiling is dripping through - and a give-away damp patch in the eaves cupboard above. I pulled away some damp plasterboard:
View media item 98763View media item 98770View media item 98767
The water is dripping down where the celotex type roof insulation ends, coming from between the felt and the celotex. Looks isolated to the area where the buckets are.
The wall with the radiator on is below the side of a small dormer housing an en-suite:
View media item 94376
Some pictures of the same side of the dormer with the lead and tiling:
View media item 98769View media item 98764View media item 98766
The green slime is new, presumably caused by an infestation of pigeons that have been living under neighbours solar panels for the last couple of years. The panels have been sealed up with chicken wire now and the pigeons have gone. If you look carefully at the 2nd and 3rd dormer pic you can see that lots of pieces/tags of lead have been lifted up on the lead adjacent to each row of tiles each - never noticed this before. Could this have been done by the pigeons and is it likely to have caused a leak? Should i fold them up/down?
Any comments on how to investigate / fix this leak much appreciated!