Hate new flat roof!

clutterbug_2

We had our flat roof recovered with the fibreglass and polymer (was originally felt) and we asked them to do it the darkest colour they could do, which was a dark grey. All the photos we had seen and were shown were a dark grey only slightly off black, but now it's on it's a rather light grey and looks horrible!

Can anyone here suggest anything we can do? My dad has suggested a type of tile that can lay flat but he's in Spain and I can't seem to find anything in the uk that would work.

We can't put a pitch of at least 25% on it because of windows that are on the wall where the roof joins.

Thanks

bloss0m

EPDM is black is another roofing stuff that can be glued on it fairly easy stuff to put on not sure if it can be out on fibreglass but it can be put on most stuff

Gloomendoom

Just buy a tin of black bitumen roof paint and paint it. Cheap and easy.

nickj_2

use bedec superflex-much easier to use than bitumen - water based won't fade or crack
bitumen wouldnt stick to fibreglass that wellhttp://www.bedec.co.uk/

Gloomendoom

Bitumen sticks to anything.

nickj_2

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Bitumen sticks to anything.

trust me , once you've used bedec you'll never want to touch bitumen again

Gloomendoom

nickj wrote: »

trust me , once you've used bedec you'll never want to touch bitumen again

Ha ha! I wouldn't be that hard to persuade.

Like I said, bitumen sticks to anything and everything!

clutterbug_2

The only thing I'm worried about is that the roofers said it couldn't be darker as the fibreglass would crack in heat. It may invalidate the 20 year guarantee with it.

Leif

clutterbug wrote: »

The only thing I'm worried about is that the roofers said it couldn't be darker as the fibreglass would crack in heat. It may invalidate the 20 year guarantee with it.

Perhaps they were out of the darker stuff. Cynical, me?

nickj_2

if you painit it darker you will get more movement when ot gets hot , you only have to listen to black plastic guttering creaking when it gets hot to see how much it is effected by heat

markdavey

I would suggest that ANYTHING you do to cover it with something else will invalidate your guarantee. I'd leave it as is, you'll soon get used to it.