There are two kinds of flat roofing in Newmarket, and most roofers price them as one job.
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There are two kinds of flat roofing in Newmarket, and most roofers price them as one job. The yard side is the decks over tack rooms, feed stores and the link buildings between stable blocks, which leak onto stored bedding and feed and turn a small fault into a real cost inside a week. The domestic side is ordinary CB8: garages and rear additions around the town centre, flat-roofed extensions behind the All Saints Road terraces, and the occasional balcony deck on a Fordham Road villa. Both share one problem. Very little stands between the gallops and a low-pitch deck, so wind load at the perimeter decides the specification more than the square metres do.
CB8 · Suffolk
Almost every flat roof we replace failed for one of three reasons: the wrong system for the span, no fall designed into the deck, or a detail at the upstand that was never going to work. The covering usually gets the blame.
On a feed or tack store the priority is a covering with no seams above the stored goods, so a single sheet of EPDM is usually the answer, with the outlet moved if the original discharges onto a walkway that ices over in winter. On the longer link roofs between blocks we specify torch-on or single-ply, because the span runs past a sensible sheet size. Open ground out towards Kentford and Moulton offers almost no shelter, so every trim is mechanically fixed, upstands go to 150mm rather than the minimum, and loose-laid ballast is avoided where wind scour is likely. Lift a corner on an older yard building and expect boards laid to no fall at all, over rafters that have taken years of moisture from below. That deck gets replaced and a fall built in with firrings or tapered insulation. Several CB8 yards sit inside the conservation areas, so West Suffolk Council has a view on what shows from the road.
We lift a corner before quoting. The deck is what decides the job: chipboard that has been wet is scrap, and no covering laid over a soft deck will last regardless of the guarantee on the membrane. We check the falls, the outlets and the upstand heights, and if the original had no fall we build one in with tapered insulation or firrings rather than laying a new membrane into the same puddle.
Flat roofs fail at the edges, not in the middle. Upstands under 150mm, an outlet that sits proud of the finished level, a trim that was face-fixed through the membrane, an abutment dressed onto render instead of chased in. We detail the perimeter first and the field second, because the field is the easy part.
What moves the price. Price is driven by the deck condition, the insulation specification and the perimeter detail, not by the square metres alone. A quote that prices only the membrane area is a quote that has not looked at the roof.
| Postcodes | CB8 |
|---|---|
| County | Suffolk |
| Planning | West Suffolk Council |
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“Tommy and his team were excellent workers, they replaced my flat roof on my extension, removed spray foam from my loft, and replaced my roof with a new one, also releaded a chimney and removed a chimney. Very friendly team, cleaned up after themselves every day.”
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It has to be. Access, deliveries and machinery movements are agreed with the yard manager before we start, because scaffold and a horse walker do not mix. We sequence block by block so no store is left open overnight, and hot work and noisy stripping are planned round exercise times rather than the other way round.
Often it is the fall or a detail rather than the sheet itself. A deck with no fall holds water until it finds a lap or an upstand, and heavy rain just gets it there faster. We lift a corner at survey and check the deck, the falls and the outlet, then price the build-up that fixes the cause instead of recovering the same puddle.
There is no single best. EPDM for most domestic garages, dormers and extensions; GRP where there is foot traffic or a crisp edge detail is wanted; torch-on felt on larger spans; single-ply on commercial decks. We recommend against the ones that do not suit your deck as clearly as we recommend the one that does.
A correctly specified EPDM or GRP roof on a sound deck should give 30 years or more. The failures we attend at 8 to 12 years are almost always a detailing or deck problem rather than the membrane wearing out.
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