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LEADING TILED ROOF manufacturer Supalite is now issuing all homeowners with a copy of the LABC produced‘ Viewpoint’ home-owner advice leaflet to ensure they are aware of potential dangers when looking to buy a replacement conservatory roof.
It is a policy Supalite has undertaken following a meeting with LABC Head of Learning and Guidance Dave Ewing to express their concerns about the potential pitfalls of wrap-over solid roofs, and to explore what action the authority is taking to ensure compliance.
Know your roofs
Explains Operations Director for Supalite Steve Hacking“ Replacement tiled roofs for conservatories are a reasonably new product. As such there is a limit to the amount of information available to homeowners looking to replace their existing conservatory roof with a new tiled roof and they need to be aware that there are product types in the market which do not necessarily meet all the criteria they could do”.
“ I am particularly talking about‘ wrap-over’ roofs – where an installer will simply‘ wrap’ a new tiled roof over an existing conservatory roof installation. They look for all the world as good as a full replacement, but there are inherent potential faults in the installation from day one”.
“ Under Building Regulation guidelines all solid replacement roofs need to be submitted to the appropriate council authorities for approval and this entails the provision of structural calculations”.
“ To simply fit a new roof on top of an existing structure is fraught with danger and
can be subject to issues such as collapse and other significant performance failures”.
“ The original conservatory will have been designed and manufactured to carry a certain weight-loading for the roof. A‘ wrap-over’ roof installation adds to that weight – effectively the conservatory has two roofs, and it was never designed to do that from a structural point of view”.
‘ Wrap-over roofs are the most likely type to cause over-stressing’
“ It is important that suppliers such as ourselves help to get the message out to home-owners who are potentially considering going down the wrap-over roof route.
“ LABC has responsibility for ensuring that Building Regulations are met at all times with regards to solid replacement roofs and it is important we give home-owners access to their information”.
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