Mansard Roof Edge Felt Showing - Is it OK?

[OliH]

Hi All,

 

I hope you can help. I live in a Cornish unit style house and I have had a new roof fitted. I believe the actual roof is fine but I'm disappointed with how the edges are finished.

The roofer has used Red membrane and you can see it sticking out from under the tiles. Several people have had their roofs done near me and you can't see the membrane.

 

Have I been done? Is it OK? How should it be finished?

 

Many thanks for any information. It has been an incredibly stressful week!

 

Cheers

 

Oli

 

 

[OliH]

Here are some Photos. You need to zoom in!

 

 

[OliH]

[Redbeard]

Urghhh! If the only problem they have left you with is a scrappy sticky-out membrane then it is arguably just an aesthetic consideration, but it does make you wonder whether they have done anything else 'non-standard'. At least there is an iron on the end of the hip.

[OliH]

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I honestly think the roof is sound. I’ve now got them to cut the membrane back a bit and it is better. 
As long as it’s just the aesthetic I think I can live with it.

My real concern was how the roof interfaces with the sides? And if they had missed something with that?

[Redbeard]

4 hours ago, OliH said:

My real concern was how the roof interfaces with the sides? And if they had missed something with that?

 

...with the mansard section, do you mean? Is the lead new, or is that what was there before. If the latter then I doubt the new roofers have got it wrong, and if the lead is new I would imagine they would simply have replicated what was there before. No obvious reason to worry, I should have thought, but that's from an assumption that it's a fair roofer, not from anything the pics show (or don't).

[joe90]

It’s just untidy, a shame people don’t pay attention to the small details that makes all the difference. (Which us self builders tend to do).

[OliH]

11 hours ago, joe90 said:

It’s just untidy, a shame people don’t pay attention to the small details that makes all the difference. (Which us self builders tend to do).

That’s what I hope. I’m going to get up there and cut it back a bit. 

[OliH]

11 hours ago, Redbeard said:

 

...with the mansard section, do you mean? Is the lead new, or is that what was there before. If the latter then I doubt the new roofers have got it wrong, and if the lead is new I would imagine they would simply have replicated what was there before. No obvious reason to worry, I should have thought, but that's from an assumption that it's a fair roofer, not from anything the pics show (or don't).

Thanks for this. The lead work was mainly original, a small section was replaced. The main roof just overhangs this slightly. 

How should the membrane be hidden?

There are other houses with new roofs on my road and the membrane is not visible at all?

[SteamyTea]

As @joe90 says, untidy.

 

Not unusual to have the membrane a bit longer than the tiles, it then gets folded into the gutter.

 

As you have a brick outer skin, is it a genuine Cornish Unit. They are concrete 'planks' down here.

[OliH]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

As @joe90 says, untidy.

 

Not unusual to have the membrane a bit longer than the tiles, it then gets folded into the gutter.

 

As you have a brick outer skin, is it a genuine Cornish Unit. They are concrete 'planks' down here.

All the concrete was condemned and not mortgageable round here. In the 80’s the council replaced it all with brick cavity walls. 
Problem is there are no gutters on the upper part of the roof to hide the membrane? So how should it be done neatly? 

[SteamyTea]

15 minutes ago, OliH said:

So how should it be done neatly? 

Not sure. Next time I am near one, I shall have a look. There are usually some that are being worked on.