Lincolnshire
Flat roofing in Stamford
Flat roofs stripped, re-decked where needed and re-covered in EPDM rubber or torch-on felt.
Extensions, dormers, garages and porches across Stamford were mostly felted a long time ago, and old felt has a finite life whether or not it has started to leak. We strip and re-cover flat roofs across PE9. This is also the work on a period property that is most often straightforwardly ours, whatever the main roof is made of.
Why old felt fails
Built-up felt goes brittle with age and ultraviolet, then splits precisely where it has to move: at upstands, at corners, and along the joint where the flat roof meets the wall. Ponding water finds those splits. By the time a ceiling shows anything, the deck below has usually been damp a while, which is why we lift a corner and look rather than price it from the ground.
EPDM rubber and torch-on felt
EPDM goes down as a single sheet across the field of the roof, so on a normal domestic extension there is no seam in the middle to fail, and it stays flexible in cold weather rather than hardening. Torch-on is a layered system bonded down with a gas torch and finished with a mineral surfaced cap sheet, and it suits a roof full of upstands and details. We fit both. On one job we took a tired fibreglass roof back to new boarding and finished it in EPDM; on another we re-decked a summer house roof and built it up in torch-on felt.
Where a flat roof meets old stone
The junction between a flat roof and a stone wall is where these jobs are won or lost. The covering has to be carried up the abutment and dressed in behind, not stopped at the edge and sealed with mastic, and on soft limestone that detail wants doing carefully rather than quickly. Mastic is a repair with a countdown attached.
The deck first
A new covering over soft boarding is money thrown away. Where the deck has gone we replace it in new boarding and say so when we quote, not as an extra once the old felt is off. 10 year guarantee, insured throughout.
- 10 year guarantee
- Quotes are free and put in writing
- The price agreed is the price you pay
- Insurance in place on every job
- Rated 5.0 by our customers
Our work
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What people say
In their words, not ours
One of the problems of finding a roofer when you are an older person is the thought of being scammed, especially given the increasing numbers of rogue traders together with the high costs at stake especially if the work is poor or non existent. We trawled a lot of roofers and found varying prices and limited experience and ‘one man bands’ offering little or no guarantees for their work. We came across Fred’s newly formed EverCrest Property Care Ltd Company and were initially concerned at the limited 3 months or so that they had been trading for, albeit that Fred had been a Sole Trader for some 6 years. So we undertook a ‘due diligence’ on the company and found they had worked on a limited number of roofing projects in the start up time. However having had a number of positive conversations with Fred we decided to give his company a chance having had a very good response and price to our required specification that formed the basis of our Building Control Application through Boston Borough Council. They say you can only make a first impression once and EverCrest Property Care Ltd certainly made an excellent impression indeed, in fact the work they undertook was first class and our Building Control Inspector was equally impressed with the standard of works they carried out. Our project involved replacing a main roof on a detached property and likewise on a kitchen extension. Work commenced on a Friday with the scaffolding being erected along with the delivery of two skips. On the Monday morning around 8:30am a team of 7 arrived on site and by 10am both roofs had been stripped and the Building Inspector was called early to check out the structure prior to the roofers installing the new insulation, membrane and battening in readiness for the new soffits, guttering and tiles being installed from Tuesday onwards. By Thursday the project had been completed and the Building Inspector returned first thing Friday morning and signed off the work having been impressed with the finished work. On the basis of the above experience we would have no hesitation in recommending EverCrest Property Care Ltd as a suitable and very experienced roofing contractor and would be happy to give any references to their standard of works.
Brilliant work! Reasonable price a friendly. Recommend to anyone. Sorted out my roof after 3 companies turned me down.
Amazing roof repair everything finished to a high standard,good communication and reasonable priced would definetly recommend.
Before you ring
Flat Roofing in Stamford: common questions
My house is listed but the extension is modern. Is the flat roof your work?
Almost always yes. A modern flat roof is ordinary roofing whatever the main house is, and it is one of the jobs we can take on without reservation on a period property.
Can my flat roof be patched?
Sometimes, and we will say so when it is true. Where the felt has gone brittle across the whole roof a patch only moves the next split along.
EPDM or felt?
EPDM suits a simple rectangular extension because it goes on in one piece. Torch-on suits a roof with lots of upstands and details. The roof decides.
Water sits on my flat roof. Is that a problem?
A little after heavy rain is normal. A permanent pond is not, and usually means the fall was never right or the deck has begun to sag. We will tell you which, with photographs.
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