We bought a house a few months. A first floor extension over the garage had been done about 3 years ago. We had a lot of rain a few days ago and water started coming into this bedroom at the join between the ceiling and the wall.
One local roofer turned up & said he knew the property well having replaced the "sodden" ceiling after the snow this winter (so just before the vendors put it on the market) and that the problem was that the roof was tiled but, due to it being so flat, should have been treated as a flat roof. We got a second roofer around who also said that the only solutions will be to change the pitch of the roof or take the tiles off & treat it as a flat roof, both of which would require planning permission and cost around £4k. The second chap measured the angle of the roof & it doesn't comply with regulations for using tiles.
I'm really annoyed as one of the huge pros of this house was that nothing needed doing - no knocking down walls, changing the kitchen or bathroom etc. All we had to do was paint & lay new carpets.
Is there anything we can do? We had a full building survey & it wasn't mentioned in that. The council only signed off on the work in the spring of this year (during the sale & purchase process) but have told me its not in their remit to check that an extension is watertight. Obviously there were an architect & builder involved in the work but I don't know who they are.
Any suggestions or advice? We don't have the money to do the work but its only going to get worse, especially if it snows this winter as, apparently, only some of the snow & melt water will run off down to the gutters, the rest will run into the roof void.
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Roof leaking in extension of house we just bought. Anything we can do?
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Murtette · 18/09/2011 20:18
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