Thanks for responding. It’s a great help because I haven’t known where to go for advice.
The gable end should have a better overhang over the wall.
You mean the tiles are supposed to overhang the wall a bit? (Bear with me, I’m female and blond.) The tiles on the very front of my house are in the same position as they were before and all the houses on my street don’t have the tiles overhanging the front wall.
The underlay should have an eaves protector. Hard to see 100% but the underlay looks a little too tight. Possibly.
What’s an eaves protector and does it go on the outside or in the loft?
Why hasn't he gone the whole length of the roof on the join with hip tiles, is beyond reason.
I got ripped off by another roofer 4 years ago when I bought the house, he did a bad job, didn’t cut tiles properly, didn’t re-felt when he pulled up tiles and he plonked cement in place of where small triangular tiles should have been placed on the valley.
He was also a total pervert and creeped me out.
I’m sure he’s the reason why I had a lot of the leaks I was getting and it was him who put those massive hip tiles between me and my neighbour. The roofer I have now said he wanted to keep the old hip tiles and says it doesn’t matter that they don’t reach the bottom of the roof as he says the bottom bit is owned by next-door. Frankly I’m not confident with my new roofers work and what he tells me. I asked him to completely re-roof the front of my house, keep what tiles he could but put down new felt all over so that way I’d know it was done right and all leaks would go but he decided not to re-roof the entire lot, he’s only re-felted the peaked area and partially around the valley and I have a leak by my chimney which he thinks he’s mended but I don’t as I can still hear dripping noises. Water would only run down the chimney stack in extremely heavy rain but I could always hear the dripping and I’m sure there’s water still dripping onto the felt and running down my roof somewhere. To be honest I think I’m getting a bad job, I’m very concerned. The old felt that he’s left on the roof (not the peaked area) has holes in it, I’ve complained and said I wanted it replacing but he’s ignored me and when he was finishing the job and pointing up the valleys I took him into the loft and pointed at one area I’m very concerned with and he just told me he’d put new felt over the top of the old to shut me up, I don’t believe him at all because he’s lied about so many things. He left me for 6 days with water pouring in because of how he’d re-felted the valleys, every day there was torrential downpours and thunderstorms and I’ve spent hours in my loft trying to catch the water in bowls. On one day he left me overnight with no tiles on one side of the peak and just my old holey felt there, he didn’t put any sheeting over and I could see daylight through the holes, along came a thunderstorm and it was like someone turning on a tap and I just had to catch the water and divert it the best I could. The next day was forecasted as heavy persistent rain all day with flood warnings, at that point there was only new felt on both peaked areas and it was like a tent, he told me not to worry and go to work but I thought better of it, during that day I spent hours up there trying to deal with SIXTEEN leaks. He’s caused me so much stress in the two weeks he’s been working on my roof. He said it was a 2 – 3 day job and I’ve been put through hell. I’ve set my alarm clock to wake me up every hour on some nights so that I can go up into my loft to check things and empty bowls, I’ve scratted around in darkness with a torch (there’s no light up there) on my hands and knees and on my belly in some spaces, I’ve gotten filthy, every hour, I’ve bruised myself umpteen times because it’s such a confined space, I’ve gotten splitters from the wood up there, it’s like doing gymnastics getting over one roof beam and he hasn’t given a damn about the amount of effort I’ve put in to protecting my ceiling from water damage. Without all my hard work my ceiling and bedroom would definitely need to be replastered and decorated. I was stupid enough to not get a price in writing, not that the price he estimated was for the work he’s done. He said it would be between £1200 & £1300 for re-roofing the front, well he hasn’t done that. One valley is still leaking, I think the chimney still has a problem, he’s taken away the scaffolding and now I don’t know what to do.
The valley isn't cut straight.
Yes, sorry, this was an old picture. The roofer said what was needed was to close up the gap a bit between the tiles to stop my leaks and when I saw what he’d done on this side of the valley I put my foot down and told him to redo it, he wasn’t happy at all but he re-cut some of the tiles and this is how it is now.
I'm sorry to say but it doesn't look like it's been installed to a high standard. Does the blue underlay feel the same as the white underlay? Hard to tell from a photo why it has been done.
The bluey black felt feels a lot harder and sturdy than the white breathable felt.
It's crap. Don't pay them until its put right
No verge overhang and unacceptable valley for starters
And it seems like you have not had any plastic eaves trays fitted - the bits which go in to the gutter
I don’t know what they are but I presume I didn’t have them before, are you sure I need them?
