Brand new roofline (well a few months old) is now hanging off.....

SarahLou

Yup, you're right, there are gutters off on nearby houses (only those who've had nice shiny new UPVC ones fitted - the old ones are all fine from what I can see).... but spot-on in your judgement - its only gutters that are down on neighbouring properties, not their fascias. I'm going to upload some more photos in a little while showing the roofline from outside and also these screws....

The length that is down is approx 4.5m long - in that, there is one section (of about 50cm in length) which has three screws poking through (about 15-20mm in length)..... throughout the other essentially 4m worth of roofline, there are NO screws poking through any more than 2mm..... you can see screws are there (tiny little 2mm heads poking through the wood) - 2mm is no where near enough to hold it - snow or no snow. So now I'm definitely thinking its a bodge-job. If it hadn't fallen off, we'd never have seen this evidence (I've taken photos, like I say).

I've rang a company we had a quote from to do the roofline initially (but they were crazy expensive.... still wish we'd gone with them now!) They're coming out at 9am on Monday morning to give us a quote for the repair (and also I did mention I wanted them to just see whats happened as I did say we had a quote from them originally but decided to go with a cheaper company!) (I'm hoping they agree in that the 2mm lengths of screw are woefully inadequate and its amazing its not just fell off before we even had any snow).

I honestly can't see the insurance surveyor (coming on Thursday) thinking that it was originally on sufficiently well - I know nowt about rooflines/roofing/UPVC fixings/etc but I do know enough about basic physics to know that a screw that isn't even through the wood enough to have any "grip" simply wouldn't hold - over a length of 4.5m with OR without snow :mad:

savemoney

once the thaw starts get it done a.s.a.p last thing you want is damage with damp coming in the house

SarahLou

Aye definitely not - that'd be just bloomin' typical!!

More photos attached showing some of the screws used (tiny 2mm bits poking out in some cases - spot the screw, first to spot the little 'uns wins a prize :rotfl:)

Also just some other general photos as at about 11am the soffits have fallen off also.

Can I ask if there are any roofers/roofline installers on here that anyone knows of? Just wondering how soffits are normally fitted? As 5 of ours are off and theres no holes in any of them (look like they've been simply held in by pressure from the fascia that fell off (tongue-and-groove stylee) - is that right? Cant see any holes in any that are now on the ground or indeed any evidence of any clips or 'owt that would be holding them in place?

My dad has informed me that they should be "self tapping screws" due to being into metal - hence close up photo of a screw which I've emailed along to him as a screw looks like a screw to me

vegasvisitor

There's another thread on here about gutters, however yours seems quite unique in that it's fixed onto metal etc, so it's not like ours at all so I can't tell if it's like ours or not.

You just need to see what the guy says, or maybe some of your neighbours have similar guttering attached to the metal if their houses are the same?

That is one large iceberg on your roof. I don't understand how it's that bad compared to the other houses, and also it doesn't look like there's that much on the ground.

nickj_2

whilst it may be debatable as to wether the guttering was put up incorrectly or was brought down by the sheer weight of the snow , a story in yesterdays news shows that a tesco's roof collasped under the weight of snow on it http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335800/Our-terror-snow-brought-Tesco-roof.html

we have to assume that tesco's don't have any fly- by - nights designing or constructing their shop , it does go to show what can happen under extreme circumstances

Daz2009

None of us can say for sure wether the workmanship is at fault or not but can I suggest that once you have it fixed and if it snows as heavily as it obviously has from you pics that in future you try and remove as much snow as possible with a broom or something,snow is very heavy and like the previous poster says it has brought down the roof on a Tesco store.
Prevention is better than cure
Good luck