Leaking roof after the storms ..... give me strength

[TalkinPeace]

I know, I'm safe from flooding and the house is otherwise undamaged

but the seals in the roof have gone and we have water dripping in and running down the walls in the whole of the kitchen dining room.

It will definitely need redecorating and probably replastering
after we have the whole roof taken off and reset - lots of tiles shifted as the wind went under them.

such a PITA.
Anybody else in the same situation?

Yes, lucky for us only the garage so far but still a pita - worse for you though.

Don't think it's the roof, but have some very definite damp patches seeping through our outside walls.... Think we need to have the house pebbledashed/rendered. The patches have already been patched

Sounds expensive. Might be worth having a word with your insurance company to see if you're covered. Even if you don't put in a claim, they will be able to give you advice on the best thing in the short term as they will want to reduce the risk of damage and a larger claim. They might be able to come up with someone who can help sooner than you can.

We've got all the greenhouse blowers in there keeping it dry as poss and the woodburner helps
but yes, probably worth checking house insurance

I saw a roofer working today and he said he's dealing with idiots (who insist on repairs even while the wind is still blowing) and emergencies at the moment

I am neither (I hope)

Is it quite a old house, with an unfelted roof?

Notify your insurers of storm damage straight away, they may lend you big builders' dehumidifiers and have a panel of approved builders and roofers.

the main house is 1930 - and was all reroofed ten years ago
the worst damage is in the extension
there is a right angle gully and the tiles to one side all lifted and dropped ...
"luckily" the felt is guiding all of the water into the walls
but yes, I'll call them now.

Yes, we have water coming into our front room, we have had 2 builders out and both say we need cavity trays put into the brick work.

Sounds like the felt was not correctly done, it is supposed to catch water from any tile gaps and lead it to the gutter. Ask around for a good roofer and ask him to take a look and advise.

Tiles do not easily move if they are well nailed. I am in a coastal area and have large slates nailed at top centre and foot. They used to use bronze nails but more recently stainless. I was thinking your nails might have rusted if old. Coastal nails rust faster.

Our roof tiles are the concrete overlap thingies - not nailed
And the worst bit of felt is in the narrow gap between the solar panel and the velux - a row of incomplete tiles.
House insurers have been notified.
I have tame roofers but will see if I can get insurance to pay
and it will only drop our no claims by 10%

Saysap
Oooh, you poor things.
At least (so far) our floors are undamaged

I can sympathise, we have rain coming in through our living room and dining room. Everytime it rains we have to get all our pots and pans out to catch the drips :-( nightmare with a toddler who constantly wants to play in the mucky water and a cat who wants to drink it! We are hoping to claim on the insurance and are waiting for a surveyor to come and see us.

I sympathise, it's miserable as we have a leak in our playroom with the ceiling and wall ruined and floor needing a resand. Also damp patches under windows upstairs and we don't really know if they are connected. We are claiming on insurance for the interior repairs but aren't 100% sure who to contact to fix the exterior leak. A roofing company have looked at the bay window but thinking we should pay for a survey to try and prevent any of this in the future.

We only moved here in the autumn! None of this was on the survey obviously!

We moved in June and it wasn't on our survey either! Bay windows here too.

Many of the roofs in our street look pretty battered with missing tiles, coping stones etc. We're also lucky that we're very high up (500ft above sea level) so don't have to worry about flooding other than the run off from a field even higher up, which disappears quickly, but that means we get the full force of the wind, even when it's not forecast to be all that strong.

All we've lost in our TV aerial, which is easy to fix, but we've had a recurrence of a leak into our bathroom, which appears to be coming around the boys' window and down behind the pebbledash on the house. Replacing the windows and re-rendering is a job that we meant to do last year, but never got around to, so I'm not surprised it happened again (and DH will probably put all his energy into something else again, this year, in denial that it needs doing)

Insurance claim lodged.
Loss adjusters have been on the phone.
If its all right with us they'll do the urgent ones first and visit us in a feww days
says it all really!

pigletjohn
if anything cross reference useful comes up I'll post pictures

We are the same talkin, lodged the claim last Friday and am still waiting for the loss adjusted to book the appointment. The office rang to say they had been given the claim but I now have to wait for the guy himself to call. I just wonder how long this will all take

We've had the assessor out but they have told us to find builders to quote for the work. Given the damage locally they are all saying it will be months before they can do any work. So frustrating!

Yep, same here, TalkinPeace. Extension with concrete tiles, although water coming straight through the ceiling rather than down the walls. Insurance assessor not able to come until the end of the month cos they are so busy. Like Foxsticks we have to keep getting out the buckets and pots plus put them out every evening just in case it rains overnight. Come down every morning expecting to see that the ceiling has fallen down. But I keep reminding myself that many people are in a much worse position.