Is this flashing wrong ( roof related !!)

I had my roof done approx 25 years ago , never been happy with it , I have a terraced house and the low level pitched roof joins the main building . Theres a leak , it's getting worse and worse and the bad weather this week had it leaking through the low level ceiling ( it's happened before , however not as bad as this )

I finally got the chance to get up and have a look , this flashing looks wrong to me , surely the flashing should curve around to meet the roof tiles , whats happening on mine is the the flashing that's coming out of the brickwork only goes down about six inches and then stops and they've put another bit of flashing at a right angle the goes under the tiles , can I solve this by adding another skirt on the existing piece coming from the brickwork and folding it at an angle over the tiles or putting some thick sort of sealant in the gap that's currently filled with moss Any help would be appreciated

With soakers the flashing doesn't need to cover over the slate. A simple step flashing is acceptable .

A problem only arises when the soakers are not fitted correctly

Neil Carroll said:

I had my roof done approx 25 years ago , never been happy with it , I have a terraced house and the low level pitched roof joins the main building . Theres a leak , it's getting worse and worse and the bad weather this week had it leaking through the low level ceiling ( it's happened before , however not as bad as this )

I finally got the chance to get up and have a look , this flashing looks wrong to me , surely the flashing should curve around to meet the roof tiles , whats happening on mine is the the flashing that's coming out of the brickwork only goes down about six inches and then stops and they've put another bit of flashing at a right angle the goes under the tiles , can I solve this by adding another skirt on the existing piece coming from the brickwork and folding it at an angle over the tiles or putting some thick sort of sealant in the gap that's currently filled with mossView attachment 400137View attachment 400138 Any help would be appreciated

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With the roof being so shallow and the flashing cut-back so acute, they'd have been better using 9" lead for the cover flashing.

If you want peace of mind, then get it re-roofed with something suitable for that pitch.

It doesn't look great. If you've got one very long soaker under all of the tiles, water could track sideways off the lead and into the roof. I would look at redoing the soakers correctly.

Clean it out, you've got a little ecosystem growing there

OP,
If you kept your same subject posts on a single thread it would be helpful.
ie. for those interested see the OP's pic post last Thursday?