Leaking conservatory roof

Johnhowell

All,

The conservatory was installed early last year, edwardian style. The installer visited a couple of times since to sort out some small leaks - especially around the rooflight units - and adjusting door locks. Which seem to have solved the issue for some time.

After the snow the other week we have some more leaking. Before we call the builder in again, should we be expecting more work than just squeezing more sealant along the joints?

Could it be that these units should be taken out and the joints cleaned up and re-jointed(?) to make a permanent seal?

Any one with experience of this situation.

Many thanks,
John

Johnhowell

Any one with some advice?

Thanks,
John

Inactive

A properly fitted conservatory roof should not require " sealant " adding to the joints, they should seal without it.

Adding sealant is a bodge.

It requires new seals fitting properly to effect a long term fix.

John_3:16

I would advice that while it is still so new it needs fixing sooner rather than later. I agree sealant should noit really be needed. The snow could have blown in then thawed where rain would not get. Does it still leak with rain now? There is alot of movement on the triple wall with such a vast range of temperature. If you have a roof light it could always be the the point of problems as they are well known to leak a little.

I would try and get them re fitted for your own peace of mind. The sealant fix is showing it is not good enough by re leaking.

Inactive

Oh one other thing to mention, if your roof lights are the screw down type, try releasing them a little, they do sometimes distort if screwed down too tightly.

Johnhowell

Many thanks for the replies.

The leaks do seem dependant with the rain and strength of wind from certain directions! We can have torrential rain storms and not a drop, yet the lightest shower and a nice line of drops ;-)

I assumed the snow loading had opened up some joints that now will be closed. On the second snowing I used a long reach pole and scrapped a lot of the load off.

We are wating for some rain now before calling them in again, and this time I will insist on removal of the units and re-seal.

Thanks
John

SailorSam

I don't know if it really needed it but when we had all that snow i was a little worried if the weight on the roof would do any damage, so i leaned out of bedroom window a couple of times to brush the thick of it off.
Could the snow have dislodged something on yours ?

Johnhowell

SailorSam,

I hope not ;-) When we had the first snow, there was a puddle (foot diameter) directly under the pinnacle, where we have never had leak due to rain. I suspect this was due to the snow load only.

On the second snow we had no leaks at this location.

Thanks,
John