Removing A Concrete Flat Roof

Example of philip dalton s work of converting a concrete flat roof into a pitched roof.

Removing a concrete flat roof.

Then cut the rest of the roof away a bit at a time and slid it off the edge. The 4 inch solid concrete roof was joined to a mirror image on the neighbours side. Of course this is probably because it will cost them a lot to remove the concrete safely and probably necessitate removing and reinstalling the new porch frontage. Prime the concrete with a bitumen primer then install a 3 layer felt system.

A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like. I had the same thing on my house. And tie it into your hip roof. This will give a good 15 20 years if done correctly.

Still even if this material does afford a much longer life than other choices it is as susceptible to the elements as any other material. This is a major undertaking and can seriously damage the roof if the people doing it don t know what they are doing. The next video is starting stop. The porch company s surveyor s answer is that the concrete porch can remain and that the new roof can be constructed around it.

It s a single storey structure attached to the main house with a flat concrete roof sealed with bitumen felt. We have been using specialist techniques for sealing concrete roofs by injecting the cracks. The felt has failed at the junction with the house it was tucked under the upper storey cladding but has come away but as the house has has wide eaves it only leaks if the wind is blowing strongly from the north east while it s raining. For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers.

There are 3 ways to do this type of roof. This is a long video but it will show you how to do it. How to remove repair and install a flat roof. Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick.

A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house. Make sure you offset yo.