"Grunff" wrote in message
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Paul Andrews wrote:
In September I'll be installing the new roof onto my garage. I've been
looking at a DIY flat roof covering "EDPM" supposedly guaranteed 20
years
and supplied as a single sheet, made to measure, though the inside
corners
are separate pieces that need to be bonded with the main sheet.. Clearly
from the photographs, the single sheet is actually joined together
strips
(joined in the factory). The actual material is attached to the roof
base
below in the fold off the strip, so no hole is made in the exposed
material
itself. It looks rather good.

Anyone have any experience of this type of roof? I've dliberately not
named
the supplier or their website for fear of being named as some spammer.

I'm planning to have a very good slope on the roof so that standing
water
should be non-existent.


I don't have any experience of EDPM roofs, but EDPM is a very stable
rubber and should last 20 years as a roof material.

But I'm curious as to your choice of material - if you're going to have
some fall on it, have you considered box profile steel? This will
significantly outlast your rubber, and look quite a lot nicer too.

Good point. I guess the rubber sheet was closest to the bitumen on the
existing gargare roof, but without any of the hassle and potentially more
reliability. I may well go for the metal roof though. The roof currently
drops a brick course over 5 metres.

The roof itself isn't visible to anyone except for the neighbour who will
directly overlook it. What about noise (I'm thinking of rain on old
corrugated sheds) - don't wan't the neighbour complaining!

Any particular recommendations?

Thanks,

Paul


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Grunff