Roofing

Roof still leaking after remedial work

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.07 PM

I live in a terraced house, built in 1890 which has a tiled roof and partial flat roof. I have an attic conversion with a dormer. Both sides of the sloped part of the roof were leaking and we had some remedial work done to the chimney (gobbo) to try and fix it. This did nothing and so we had another roofing company come to look. They quoted us £1200 to fix the issue which they said was the flashing to the inner side of the two chimneys (ours and the neighbour’s, which one side is on ours) and this was re-flashed. Cue Storm Dennis and both sides are still leaking (the wall is wet and the leak is running down, albeit not steaming but you can see where it’s run down) so effectively it’s leaking as it was before. Is it normal for the leak to persist in wet weather? We called the roofer out who said that it would take a while to dry out and it might still come through the plaster. I can’t understand why this is only really happening when it rains if the leak is fixed? When the roofer came out he suggested that our chimney could probably do with re-pointing and as it wasn’t in use it would take a while to dry out. I’m annoyed because why they didn’t look into this and suggest it in the original quote - it now means I’ll have to pay for further scaffolding and work when this could have been done with the original job. Any advice greatly appreciated!