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Roof lantern or pitched fiberglass roof with Windows??

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.03 PM

Hi, we have a 1930s house with a wide, narrow flat roofed extension to the rear. It's 9m wide and 4m deep. It's brick built, with full width patio doors onto a south East facing arden. It's current flat roof is more than ready for replacing, but we don't know if we should got for a flat roof with a 5m x 1m+ roof lantern, or get a low pitched fibreglass roof with two or three roof lights. We haven't gone enough room for a tiled pitch, which we would love, and we also need to get light into the other two living rooms that feed off the extension. The house has red roof tiles, St Annes smooth brick and cream render. Any suggestions, hints, tips please would be greatly appreciated. If anyone has any quirky, or slightly different ideas to the norm then even better!! We had a pitch put on our last extension, with a vaulted roof and window lights and we absolutely loved it. One worry/concern is rain noise, plus we have a lot of wildlife so there are always birds/squirrels running across it. The last thing I want is a roof lantern which the birds are going to congregate on.

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2 Answers

DCR AND SONS LTD

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

Epsom

If money was not an issue you could go for a lead roof on either a pitch or a flat roof. This would eliminate many issues like rain noise or cracking issues with GRP. GRP is a good product used by many but not all companies install it by the book. The joints need to be taped with gaffer tape bandaged with strips of matting and resin, before you lay the last layer. This is not always done. On the other hand putting tongue and groove down will eliminate cracking issues. I suggest to my customers to use a product that a company only sell to people who have been trained by them. Like Rubberbond. This has a life expectancy of 50+ years and only sold to approved contractors. GRP is over used by inexperienced roofers. Second to lead sheet, Rubberbond lasts the longest. If it is installed on a pitch the correct adhesive (contact adhesive) should be used. If you are not set on a vaulted roof then a flat roof with a large roof lantern pitched, will help deter the birds somewhat. If this was done in lead it would look amazing and last for over 100 years.

Answered17 July 2016

Cas Roofing

Rating: 5 out of 5

Sheffield

Do whatever makes you happy and makes you feel comfortable in your own home, as said above with an experienced lead worker and the correct structure of materials to work with underneath lead would look amazing but make sure if that's the way you go that it has patination oil applied to it every now and then so it keeps its shine and makes the lead look more brand new for longer.

Answered6 January 2018