Is this roof repair adequate or not?

BuntyB

Why do you not expect your repair to be pretty or tidy? Regardless of living in your own home or in social housing either a workman is good at their job or bad at it. The fact that you paid for it suggests that you are willing to accept shoddy work

Mollie90132

Misunderstanding. I did not pay for this work. It was done by the social housing workmen and this is an example of one trade there have been a few other horrors by other trades.

It is probably wrong but I feel as social housing rent is reasonable I don't expect a very good tradesman to be working for a social housing landlord. The pay is not great. I just expect safe, adequate repairs that will not be a danger or cause costly problems later on to me or the landlord.

And, I do fear for all the new apprentices they take on if this is repair is the bench mark.

But thanks for all advice. I have done the full complaints procedure and now taking it to the ombudsman.

mrs_motivated

That's about the worst roofing job I have ever seen.

I manage social housing and no way would I accept that standard of workmanship on any of our properties.

Rent may be subsidised, but any decent landlord would know that to protect the 'asset' or stock is essential!

Let us know how you get on with the ombudsmen?

if it's a council owned property, go to your local counsellors surgery, armed with pics. A counsellor enquiry usually gets bums into gear.

Mollie90132

Again, most of the answers to me are commonsense.

I am at a loss as to why our repairs in this area are so bad. I have had councillors, technical inspectors, housing officers who all sympathise but will not say the repairs are bad. Their action is to get someone, making sure it is the best workman, to do it again.

Not saying there is a conspiracy theory here but I have noticed there is definitelya culture of not going back to a depot and highlighting the lack of skillwithin qualified workmen.

Will let you know how I get on and if anything improves.

maninthestreet

Hurriance 'Bawbag' - when did that one strike the UK?

Mollie90132

See extract below from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bawbag

Hurricane Bawbag is the colloquial name given to an intense mid-latitude storm, officially named Friedhelm,[1] which brought hurricane-force winds to Scotland at the beginning of December 2011

..................... winds reached up to 165 mph (265 km/h) at elevated areas.........

fatbikersbouncebetter

Clay Rosemary tiles last used on council houses BEFORE roofing felt was standard.I would guess that if you look in your loft you can see the back of the tiles.
The repair is typical quick fix and probably OK though not pretty.
Clay tiles at that age will be very brittle as the clay becomes porous over the years and they degrade from the back, they break for fun and ripping back the area for inspection is not a quick repair. ask your association if they have a proposed roof replacement date. I also think the leakmight be due to the back of the chimney, but I guess they checked that.

Not pretty, but it probably does the job.

Mollie90132

Noticed today what I feared, the cement stuff is breaking off! I can see a small gap in the cenment already. It looks now that the weather is going to break the thick 'cement' up

The chimney been renewed, looks very well done. No leaks there.

Last time a roofer came to do some patching and he took off a black membrane which looked like a thin bitumen. House built in 1920s, didn't think they used membranes then. ?if it could have been patched up along the years.

Roof due for renewal 2036.

I think southcoastgi right, old cement not removed first and this is causing problems.
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Jojo_the_Tightfisted

BuntyB wrote: »

Why do you not expect your repair to be pretty or tidy? Regardless of living in your own home or in social housing either a workman is good at their job or bad at it. The fact that you paid for it suggests that you are willing to accept shoddy work

It's par for the course with social housing repairs.