Removing A Concrete Flat Roof

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Removing a concrete flat roof.

I had the same thing on my house. The felt has failed at the junction with the house it was tucked under the upper storey cladding but has come away but as the house has has wide eaves it only leaks if the wind is blowing strongly from the north east while it s raining. The porch company s surveyor s answer is that the concrete porch can remain and that the new roof can be constructed around it. This will give a good 15 20 years if done correctly.

Prime the concrete with a bitumen primer then install a 3 layer felt system. Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick. Example of philip dalton s work of converting a concrete flat roof into a pitched roof. Still even if this material does afford a much longer life than other choices it is as susceptible to the elements as any other material.

And tie it into your hip roof. A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like. Make sure you offset yo. The 4 inch solid concrete roof was joined to a mirror image on the neighbours side.

Then cut the rest of the roof away a bit at a time and slid it off the edge. This is a major undertaking and can seriously damage the roof if the people doing it don t know what they are doing. This is a long video but it will show you how to do it. It s a single storey structure attached to the main house with a flat concrete roof sealed with bitumen felt.

How to remove repair and install a flat roof. There are 3 ways to do this type of roof. We have been using specialist techniques for sealing concrete roofs by injecting the cracks. I put supports under the roof then used a petrol stihl saw to cut my roof away from the neighbours as close to the party wall as possible.

A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house. Concrete rooftops are usually built on commercial buildings however flat concrete roofs and concrete shingles have been gaining popularity for use in constructing private homes.