Replacement Roofs

My next door neighbour terraced villa had to have a replacement roof due too leaks. That is when my troubles started. My roof started to leak from next door and because of the lock down it was nearly a year and a half before a roofer came to look at it By then my whole roof was wet and I decided to get a new roof as well. I did not tell my neighbour it was the fault of her roofers for doing a bad job. She is her 80 and suffers from strokes and is in and out of hospital After my job was done and I paid my roofers I noticed sun light coming into my side of my roof it was coming in between the space on my side of wall. I informed my roofers and they said it was next doors fault as they used less tiles than standard practice. They did not mention the sub standard work until after they had taking my old roof down and said there would be no problems and that my roof would be watertight and it was not a problem. Todate I have had no water coming in, but I was not happy with the small sunlight coming in through the green membrane. They are now saying that it was not in my original quote which is correct and that I would have pay the extra money if I was to get it done correctly which thought if I had to pay I would. The are not going to remove my tiles but lifted and refit all next doors tiles My neighbour would not allow this as when I mentioned I would have to this sorted my roof she was not very happy that a small amount of her tiles would have to lifted which I thought would happen. She ok it but said if there was any damage I would have pay. (If she only knew) What I am after is there any other way round this does not involve all her tiles HELP. Sorry it is so long winded, also she paid cash to her roofers and has no guarantee etc.,

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Alan
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You shouldn't see daylight on a new roof. Something is untoward and needs investigating.
11th Oct 2021
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All re roofs should come with a guarantee and no light showing as this means not completely water tight sounds to me like they have not fitted a jointing strip as it is on dividing walk I would ask the roofing firm for an explanation and to fix or approach the trading standards for further advice ..
11th Nov 2021
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It seems your neighbour has had some shoddy work done,you need to be careful because if you can see daylight coming through chances are water is coming through even if you don't see any leaks you still may have a slow leak that over time could be causing damage to the timber joists, I would suggest that you have a independent survey carried out.
25th Jan 2022
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Well its obvious that her roof was not done to meet properly but this is a civil matter between the 2 of you you will have to come to some point of agreement in order to keep you both happy
14th Apr 2022
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HomeDry Home improvements
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There’s not really I thing you could do then re-felting her part off the roof
26th Sep 2022
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In my opinion the only way you could rectify it is by lifting next doors tiles there is no other way around it
14th Oct 2022
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C frew roofing limited
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Next doors tiles should have no effect on your roof. It sounds like the roofers have latted your roof to match the leatting gauge of next doors roof and ran the tiles through to match. If that's the case and next doors has originally been latted out wrong (gauge to big) and th3y have followed that regardless then they are at fault they should have ignored next doors roof and installed bonding gutters between the properties and effectively separated the 2 adjoining roofs. That's if that is what they have done a it difficult to say for sure with no images or measurements.
20th Dec 2022
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Yes there is and it should have been done the first time tje gap should not be there
17th Jul 2023
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Unless her tiles inter lock with yours then replacing a new roof is straight forward and can be completed good
20th Feb 2024
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