I have nearly finished my mono pitch seamed roof from tata steel.
42sqm cost £3300 in materials.
I have never done this before and went on their free training course in the summer.
They say the DIY'er can do this project. I would say yes and no.
The panels are fairly straight forward to fit. So if you just have a pitch of roof with no junctions then all is ok. The issue comes with window penetrations and valleys etc.
The flashings around the windows are quite technical and the instructions are really hard to follow (crap photos etc). Luckily the tech guy was doing a course in my area and so i waited a week and he came on the day he was traveling here and so had time to kill. He showed me how to do one window and i was off after that.
If only they did some videos i could easily have followed those. Apparently they have been talking about videos for 10 years, but no one will do them at the company.
I needed 2 more tubes of the specialist silicone and 100 more tec screws. I was totally reliant on them providing what i needed, so they got this wrong. I pointed this out but they said it was up to me to check i had what i needed. They knew i was a DIY'er doing it for the first time so how am i to know how much silicone will be used and the screws.
So for 100 colour coated tec screws and 2 tubes of sika flex it was £120 delivered.
I have had to source the silicone myself and i had some brown capped tec screws from my shed roof i did last winter. So not that bad.
I would not recommend Tata steel roofs if doing this yourself. The product is good, but the support is lousy. The installer option would probably removed these issues, but then the cost would be much higher.
42sqm cost £3300 in materials.
I have never done this before and went on their free training course in the summer.
They say the DIY'er can do this project. I would say yes and no.
The panels are fairly straight forward to fit. So if you just have a pitch of roof with no junctions then all is ok. The issue comes with window penetrations and valleys etc.
The flashings around the windows are quite technical and the instructions are really hard to follow (crap photos etc). Luckily the tech guy was doing a course in my area and so i waited a week and he came on the day he was traveling here and so had time to kill. He showed me how to do one window and i was off after that.
If only they did some videos i could easily have followed those. Apparently they have been talking about videos for 10 years, but no one will do them at the company.
I needed 2 more tubes of the specialist silicone and 100 more tec screws. I was totally reliant on them providing what i needed, so they got this wrong. I pointed this out but they said it was up to me to check i had what i needed. They knew i was a DIY'er doing it for the first time so how am i to know how much silicone will be used and the screws.
So for 100 colour coated tec screws and 2 tubes of sika flex it was £120 delivered.
I have had to source the silicone myself and i had some brown capped tec screws from my shed roof i did last winter. So not that bad.
I would not recommend Tata steel roofs if doing this yourself. The product is good, but the support is lousy. The installer option would probably removed these issues, but then the cost would be much higher.
