Devon_dream

Absolutely, just to make it even worse, when he quoted us he said he's more than these young cowboys as you pay more for time served. I've worked myself up for the conversation tomorrow, I will give him the chance to put this right or he's gone.

It's exactly like that, I'm telling him his roof isn't meeting building regs and all the plastic bits need putting on and he simply replies 'go and find one of my roofs that leaks, you won't, I'm right and building regs are wrong'. I've also just measured all the batten spacings and the tiles have a headlap range of 210-255mm. His are 250mm in places and 280mm in others, at 280mm you can see the top part of the tile You're not supposed to. I've been on in all morning myself ripping the battens off and redoing them, I've worked out the gauge and put chalk lines across. It's taken me 5 hrs so far and will probably take the rest of the day.

What makes it harder for me is he's a family friend. I'm going to have a word with him when he's back on Tuesday and of he won't do it the right way then it's the highway. Aka mag to grid

Funny you should mention that as he wasn't going to put it on but I argued and argued and then lied and said the building regs guy said it must be there, he begrudgingly put them on. The tiles are Sandtoft 20/20, the membrane is Sandtoft vpm and the house is detached.

I have an old (1950s) house that still has its original roof, so I have got a local roofer in to re do it all. I have been watching him and checking over the work when he's not there and I am not satisfied with the work, he's told me I'm being too fussy and that building regs are OTT. Examples, I read the tiles need nailing every three rows but he's going 6-7 rows with no nails, his underlay at times are only overlapped about 7cm not 15 as printed on the underlay. He's won't use the plastic corrugated stuff that allows air past the insulation as he says it does nothing. He's put on the battens on but they're about 2 inches lower by the top at one end compared to the other, also he's not calculated the guage so the top two have a smaller overlap. There's loads of other things but there's a few examples. Obviously if I didn't look I would never know these things and I'd probably be happy with the finish but having looked online and checked his work I wonder if I should do something about it? When I've question him he just says he's been a roofer for 25 years and building regs go too far and to just leave him to it. Am I just being picky?