Rutland
Spray foam insulation removal in Oakham
Spray foam cut out of the loft and taken away, so the roof can be surveyed and the house can sell.
Rutland has more holiday lets, second homes and converted outbuildings per square mile than almost anywhere we work, and that changes who rings us about spray foam. It is rarely the person living under it. It is a landlord whose remortgage has stalled, or an owner whose buyer's lender has gone quiet a fortnight before exchange.
Why lenders refuse
Foam sprayed onto the underside of a roof glues itself to the rafters and the felt. A valuer cannot see the timber, cannot assess it, and will not certify what they have not seen. Faced with that, the safe answer for them is no. It also seals the ventilation path, so moisture that used to pass out through the loft now stays in it, which is the reason the timber underneath is sometimes genuinely worse than the survey feared.
Let properties and the booking calendar
If the roof is over a holiday let, timing is most of the problem. Removal is dirty work with people going in and out of the loft, so it wants a gap between bookings rather than a Friday changeover. Tell us the dates you have and we will be honest about whether we can work inside them instead of promising a week and overrunning into a guest arrival.
Barns, stables and conversions
Foam turns up in converted agricultural buildings across the county, often sprayed years ago onto a roof that had no felt at all. That is a different job from a house loft: there may be nothing behind the foam but the back of the tiles, and once it is off the roof may need felting properly for the first time. We will tell you if that is what we find rather than discover it halfway through.
How it comes off
Cut and scraped by hand, bagged and taken away. There is no shortcut and anyone selling one is worth a second look. We photograph the timber once it is visible and give you a straight answer on what it needs. Free written quote, insured throughout.
- Free quotes, put in writing
- The price quoted is the price paid
- Guaranteed for five or ten years depending on the work
- Public liability and employer's liability cover on every job
- Rated 5.0 by customers across Google, Checkatrade, MyBuilder and Bark
Our work
Jobs near Oakham
Every photograph here is EverCrest's own, taken on the job.
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
Spray Foam Removal in Oakham: common questions
Is spray foam really why my sale fell through?
It very often is. Lenders take a cautious view because the timbers cannot be inspected under it, and a valuer who cannot see the structure will usually decline rather than take a chance.
Is it worse on an old stone cottage?
Generally yes. Historic timbers are what a surveyor most wants to see and are least able to cope with trapped moisture, so the foam does more harm on an old roof than a modern one.
Can it be left and covered over?
No. The whole problem is that nobody can see through it, so concealing it makes the survey issue worse rather than better.
Will I need a new roof afterwards?
Sometimes, sometimes not at all. Once the foam is off we photograph the timber and the felt and tell you plainly which it is.
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