No downpipe fitted to guttering

[bethrob99]

After fitting external cladding over a year ago no downpipe has been fitted to neighbours roof. There is a party wall below and rainwater runs onto bathroom roof. This month bathroom has let in water. Roofer said this absence of downpipe was contributory. Installer of cladding says not. Independent opinions please

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• bethrob99
• 28 May 2015
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[freddiemercurystwin]

Thank goodness you gave us a picture of a non existent downpipe, I was finding it hard to imagine what a missing downpipe would look like, maybe some pics of the flat roof and its flashings etc would be more useful?

 

[bethrob99]

It is a pitched clay tile roof below. The picture is to show how the water is hitting the plastic capping fitted on top of the insulation before disgorging at various rates depending on force of rain

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Show us what's going on in context and who owns what etc, your photo is no good on its own.

 

[bethrob99]

The roof you can see is the top of next door's three storey building. The lower levels of the wall form part of this sides first floor bathroom and ground floor kitchen. These are part of a two storey rear extension to a two storey house. I didn't get up there to take the photo; that was courtesy of the roofer who took the pic to show me how the gutter had been left. Rather tricky to see from ground level The extension has been there over twenty years

 

[Alastairreid]

Who knows if it is causing your water ingress but leaving that outlet like that is nothing short of a disgrace!

You think you have seen it all then another one pops up.

Wont be too long till the new render blows off imo.

 

[Nige F]

that is nothing short of a disgrace!

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It's short of the end of the roof too Cladding, schmadding

 

[Mw Roofline]

I'm surprised it didn't leak a week after that was fitted.

 

[nebjamin]

That is shocking! I had similar experiences of rainwater incompetence when I had my house cladded last year. I wonder if it was the same company. Do you know which company installed it?