Garage Roof Replacement

Ignite

I have been in touch with the housing association this morning and thanked them for their letter, but told them that I'm declining their offer to do the work. Having also spoken to the contact listed on the letter, I've been told that they have to do the work and that they will be referring my response to the works department to see where they go next. Given that I'm the 3rd person that I know of who has declined their offer, they are going to have to review their approach to this.

As a side point, if they are using these figures for their internal costings as well as the costs given to property owners, the total job for all of the garages on the road would be in the region of 1/4 million pounds!!!!

Ignite

Rusty_Shackleton wrote: »

In August I replaced a garage roof (corrugated asbestos) with Onduline bitumen corrugate. All in cost me about £700 for 6x3m garage. That covered removing and disposing of asbestos, new timber purlins, and the Onduline, all DIY of course.

For £350 i'd let them remove your old asbestos roof, then fit your own replacement... Onduline and equivalents are cheap and are guaranteed for 15 years.

Thank you. Looking at the cost of this product, it's about £20 per 2m x 0.9m sheet. This seems like a far better option. For the benefit of anyone else looking at this in the future, here is a link to the product https://onduline.co.uk/products/onduline/
It at least gives me a point to start discussing options.

Rusty_Shackleton

No worries, I've never done any roofing (neither had my mate who was helping) and it was a breeze. Just make sure you print out and follow the instruction book.

I bought the Onduline itself from Wickes, purely because I needed a Saturday delivery. There are cheaper suppliers available but if nobody is home regularly during office hours, be prepared for a ball-ache when it comes to delivery schedules!

EachPenny

Ignite wrote: »

Thank you. Looking at the cost of this product, it's about £20 per 2m x 0.9m sheet. This seems like a far better option. For the benefit of anyone else looking at this in the future, here is a link to the product https://onduline.co.uk/products/onduline/
It at least gives me a point to start discussing options.

It depends what you want. Comparing Onduline to the material the council appears to be proposing is like comparing Ryanair to BA Business Class.

Onduline is less rigid than asbestos cement, and needs more support to prevent it from sagging. Replacing asbestos cement with Onduline and not making sure the purlins are spaced closely enough (very unlikely they are) will lead to problems within a couple of years. Rusty Shackleton pointed out that he had to replace the purlins - so you need to factor that into the overall cost of re-roofing which will be considerably more than just the cost of the sheeting.

Onduline is also not very robust - I wouldn't walk on it, and someone wanting to break into your garage could easily make a hole in it with their bare hands (silently as well).

If you needed to re-roof your garage on a tight budget then it might be worth thinking about as an option.

But I'd say there was very little chance of the council even considering using it, and the issue you'll have comes back to the different purlin requirements between the council's choice, and anything cheaper that you want to use.

Your best bet is to negotiate with the council to get them to give you their choice of material at the very lowest cost.

Gloomendoom

Onduline is horrible stuff. Basically tar soaked cardboard.

I used it to roof my wood store. It will be replaced with corrugated iron.

chunkytfg

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Onduline is horrible stuff. Basically tar soaked cardboard.

I used it to roof my wood store. It will be replaced with corrugated iron.

If noise when it's raining is a factor it is pretty good stuff though. I'd use this on a stable over Metal any day. Metal roofs are horrible noisy things in the rain.

Back the the OP though, i'm intrigued with what they come back to you with especially if as you say a few other people have said thanks but no thanks.

Ignite

chunkytfg wrote: »

Back the the OP though, i'm intrigued with what they come back to you with especially if as you say a few other people have said thanks but no thanks.

Yep, it is going to be interesting to see what they say. As they have their minds set on doing the work and they can't force us to agree, they will have to come back with something a lot better than £2850 for doing the work. I know that some of the people who have said no thanks don't have spare money to spend on garage roofs. For that matter, I can think of a lot of things I would rather spend that sort of money on.

pollypenny

We've just had a garage roof like this, shared with neighbour, replaced. It cost £2400.

North Wales.

No extra cost for asbestos removal, either.

Rusty_Shackleton

chunkytfg wrote: »

If noise when it's raining is a factor it is pretty good stuff though. I'd use this on a stable over Metal any day. Metal roofs are horrible noisy things in the rain.

It's quiet in the rain and there's been no sign of condensation on the underside either.

I'm surprised to see the negative perceptions of Onduline on here, I did loads of reading online before settling on it and it seemed to be much better received than corrugated steel sheets/PVC etc. so unless you want to spend a stupid amount of money on a garage roof, I'd highly recommend reading up on your options.

PS, we didn't walk on the Onduline, but my mate weighs about 12 stone and was having to lay on it to get the fixings into the last sheet!

andrewf75

Sounds like a rip off, or at least they are going to replace more than is actually necessary.
Recently had my similar garage roof redone with the latest Marley cement based sheets for just over a grand by a local roofer. I had previously had quotes similar to yours from specialist garage roof firms.
The material is similar to what was on there before, very heavy solid sheets, way stronger than onduline/coroline, which is really for sheds I think. I did a test on my old roof and it wasn’t asbestos. If you can break off a bit you can do a test for around £30.