After many months waiting for a good spell of weather for the roof, Thomas and Matt have restarted on the roof. The new roof is a EPDM membrane which is a type of rubber sheet about 2mm thick.
The roof was re-started last Thursday and should be finished on Monday and I have to say I am really sad and disappointed with the results:
- It all seems a bit of a patch work and looks ugly
- There are quite a few large bubbles
- There are squishy bits that move down under pressure of a foot
- The rubber membrane doesn’t wrap over the edge of the roof, which makes sense to protect the substrate from the weather etc. See diagram below
- There about 12 different seams in our EPDM roof, I would have thought you could have got away with four seams joining four pieces of membrane together. PS. most EPDM roof failures are around the seams so it’s a good idea to minimise them
- When it rains there are still standing pools of water
This roof looks DIY to me and from the onset I was hoping they would get the levels of the roof right so water would drain correctly, but no, they just built on the existing roof contours. I am really not happy with this and can see this roof being redone (when we can afford it) in a few years down the road. We had plans for a deck but it’s no point in putting that down if the roof has to get ripped up. Sigh.
By the way there is still a complete roll of EPDM plus, so running out of the membrane shouldn’t have been a factor for the existing EPDM patchwork. Aimee’s face sums it up.
What probably makes me most sad is that Aimee and I are trying are hardest to lovingly restore the house and then we get this sort of work. It makes me think what’s the point of all our effort.
Can’t you get them to redo the work 🙁
No don’t think so. The architect looked at it today and even thought it was a shame that it was a patchwork, he thought the rest was fine. We’ll probably learn to live with it.