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Water Tight
Once your new conservatory
has been installed the last thing you
want to worry about is persistent water
problems. We use several means of finishing
the roof of our conservatories to ensure
this doesn’t happen.
On all our conservatory
roofs we use lead flashing, the mortar
lines of the house wall are ground out
the lead is fitted and pointed over. On
our conservatories with a pitched roof
such as Edwardian or Victorian we step
flash the lead and then fit into the mortal
lines as above.
 On
conservatories with a box valley gutter
design that is being fitted onto a fascia
the finishing of the roof is done is a
slightly different way. We still use lead
flashing but to fit the lead the roof
tiles are lifted and the lead is fitted
under the roof felt so any water running
down the roof will be diverted into the
box valley gutter. We also use a product
called eaves guard (from our roofline
replacement system) this is also fitted
under the felt to help with diverting
the rainwater into box valley gutter.
If there is a soil pipe
or waste pipes that are not being re-sited
and fitted through the conservatory roof
it is necessary to fit a lead sleeve around
these pipes to ensure no water gets through.
Wherever we finish a conservatory roof with lead our installers
will also seal behind and underneath the lead flashing with clear silicon to
get the best seal possible.
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