Dispute with builder regarding roof slates

cyclonebri1

Inspite of what builders may say they have a responsibility to ensure reasonable match in materials chosen.

It's unlikely he can change or mix the upper slates as they will have been bought as "shorts", ie, they only overlap a single not double tile.

Negation time;);)

MX5huggy

thebaronn wrote: »

I'd love to upload a picture but a new forum member I'm not allowed to upload photos or post links.

Put the link up with a space after the www. It won't work but then we can look it up fix it and post a link that does.

thebaronn

MX5huggy wrote: »

Put the link up with a space after the www. It won't work but then we can look it up fix it and post a link that does.

I have tried to host the photos on postimage.org but even with spaces it identifies the link


Edit: Sorted, see below.

thebaronn

Remove spaces in the following URLs to see photos of the roof:-

https / postimg . org /image / 9qlkd11wn/
https / postimg . org /image / b7k3fq5gx/
https / postimg . org /image / tdpwf55mf/
https : // postimg . org /image / p2ahhvdjr/
https : // postimg . org /image / oe9wnqvqv/
https : // postimg . org /image / 7u3ht6yaf/
https : // postimg . org /image / fiy33h3pd/
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dermonte

Wow your builder got some imagination. They dont even look like same tiles let alone different batch. I am not surprised your not happy. On our street some people got their roof painted professionally. I wonder if that could be a solution ofcourse paid by your builder.

davemorton

The first couple of images to save people taking all the spaces out..and hmmm, slightly different!
https://postimg.org/image/b7k3fq5gx/

https://postimg.org/image/9qlkd11wn/

Furts

davemorton wrote: »

The first couple of images to save people taking all the spaces out..and hmmm, slightly different!
https://postimg.org/image/b7k3fq5gx/

https://postimg.org/image/9qlkd11wn/

Looking at the battens, (they appear to be only pieces of varying timber, not treated, not finishing on a rafter and not staggered joints), I wonder about the competence of any of the roofing works.

Look at the top course on the RHS - it is not properly nailed to a suitable batten beneath.

I cannot see how the ridge is fixed -I wonder if it is mortared in place but there is not much room for this to be so.

Are there flashing kits for the roof lights? How are the cut slates fixed around them?

Of course the top courses do not match, but this is a trivial detail when the it the roof may need to be stripped off and redone.

Back to OP here - you have inspected the work as it has progressed. Are you happy everything is OK?

amersall

I would not accept that I am afraid, hope you get it sorted.

dermonte

I hate builders like that. They continue doing the job even they know its wrong until customer points out. Stop working when you notice your mistake, then inform customer and correct without even asking if customer would acceot it. All of us working here to pay for those jobs to be done properly. Money doesnt grow on trees!!

teneighty

As well as the slates being wrong the whole ridge detail is wrong. The slates should be taken far higher up to the apex of the roof, the ridge tiles barely cover the top of the slates.

Certainly the entire ridge will have to be stripped and redone properly but if they can get the ridge detail so wrong it calls into question whether the rest of the roof has been done correctly.

Thanks to Istar just looked at the later photos with the lead soaker under the ridge tiles. Nice try but what a bodge, oh dear.