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Is it standard practice to leave slightly rotten wood (surveyor: "it's just flaky", "it will dry out once the new roof is on") from the old roof in the new roof? This is the bit of wood that the top of the porch is fixed to, and itself it is attached to the bottom of the concrete slab roof...

Personally I think that the surveyor should have seen that the existing roof was concrete beforehand! Anyway, it appears to have been built into the house and be self-supporting (i.e., presumably have iron bar reinforcements within), so building around it is actually the only logical solution.

Hi, We're getting an existing flat concrete porch roof replaced with a more standard pitched roof as part of our porch re-working. The fact the existing roof is concrete was only discovered by the roofer on the day he came to do his work. He said that he would have to break it up and...