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Thanks Woody - while I think that it's definitely the upstands that are leaking at the moment. I just took this attached pic which makes it look even worse than I thought - it looks like the very old felt roof has been put on top of an even older felt roof - I think that what the edges have been...

I was looking into having our flat roof replaced. The reinforced concrete roof spans an outhouse and a corner of our kitchen and I was looking at choices of materials but have come across quite a lot of discussion about building regs requiring increased insulation in habitable areas. I can't...

I've spent a good few hours recently trying to patch the old felt flat roof. It covers a concrete roof single story outhouse and part of the kitchen. I've been patching up a cement fillet which wasn't too bad but had also tried to use a felt patch in s couple of places but because of the...

Cheers all. Yeah I thought it was odd - this wasn't a huge extensive job, rather a couple of 30 min sessions outdoors with an A1P2 mask so I'm fairly sure I haven't been excessively exposed. Some people can't drink red wine, I guess for me it's bitumen primer! Sadly not quite finished the job...

This is a bit random but has anyone had an absolute mother of a headache from bitumen paints? I've been doing some flat roof repair outdoors, applied primer first which gave me a headache so I purchased an organic gas half respirator for the next part - assumed it was pretty effective, couldn't...

Cheers for the information. Do you know if I went with the refillet plan - would I use the same mortar mix I'd use for repointing?

Sorry just a follow-on: if I went with lead flashing - would I put that into the brick above - or in the same row of bricks as is currently in?

Thank you for your reply and sorry for the delay - here is a pic from above - for some reason the other uploads keep failing but I hope this is clear. My reluctance to put a lead cover on it is just that I'll be replacing in the near future and will plan to get lead put on then - is patching up...

I'm in the process of repairing a couple of holes in a flat roof but there's a section of the cement fillet that has moved - it looks like the short vertical section of felt beneath the fillet has some give beneath it in this section - not sure if there's been some shrinkage or movement at some...

I've got a flat roof (reinforced concrete) with a tear in the seam of the felt - I think it's going to need patching rather than painting over - roofer was booked but has let me down several times now so going to try myself. But my question is - how long do I need to let it dry out for? We've...

As I slowly try to sort out house repairs I'm aware a new roof is looming. We have a roofer coming tomorrow to repair a few tiles but it's an old torched roof and wedges of cement are falling left right and centre and we're one of the few remaining houses on the estate with the original 1950's...

Is there any point in repairing/preserving the damaged portion? I was reading this page which, admittedly is advertising products, recommends several steps: https://www.middleeast.weber/concrete-repair-anchoring-and-grouting/repair-damage-exposed-steel-reinforcement I.e. brush/rubbing off the...

I realise this is super old but I have a 1950's house with a torched roof - would that be horsehair too or was that a much older practice?

Thanks so much everyone. It's really helpful to have some balance to my first instinct to panic. I have called off the evacuation of the street.

Thanks - I've contacted a local builder who thinks it is a straight one - he obv doesn't know for sure but I imagine if you've done a lot of work in the area you can make an educated judgement (just like the roofer who recently told me my soffits were asbestos without looking :( ). Obviously...

Sorry - posted before I saw your response - thank you just looking up boot lintels - so that looks like it would amount to a much bigger job if that's the case.

Ahhh thanks - I've just looked at some diagrams, I understand now. So would the plan be to remove the concrete one, but the steel angle in and then have another row of bricks? I'm thinking of continuity with the other windows and doors. My other query was if the lintel supports the outer brick...

Thanks - you're right, I don't think it's failed yet - can I ask what you mean about the steel angle? The videos I've watched show removal and replacement of the whole concrete joist, supporting the wall temporarily and removing quite a lot of brickwork - a quick Google suggested that this would...

Actually - in my panicked state I looked at the lintel again with my torch and there is more cracking than I thought. I'm fairly certain at the moment it's just some of the underneath concrete that has flaked off but the rod underneath is definitely rusting so I'm contacting a couple of local...

As I prepare to do some overdue repointing I'm just looking around the brickwork and hadn't noticed this before despite living here for more than 2 years. This is above our French windows. So from the zoomed-out pics it looks ok but looking closer you can see there's a piece of slate wedged in...