Built Up Roof re-roof               hover your mouse curser over the photo for the text

Remove existing BUR gravel surfaced roof membrane and replace with 2 layer mechanically fixed smooth surfaced Torchon System.

mid 1950's flat roofed home view of the BUR gravel surfaced roof
looking down on the roof from above starting to tear up the BUR
first section of roof is torn up down to the timber boards loading the materials to the roof by HIAB crane
unloading the materials at roof level this is where the worst leak was, around the chimney base, timber is rotted out
the rotted boards are replaced cleaning up the roof ready for the new membrane system
laying the fleece backed base sheet on the timber board substrate, hidden nailing along the welded laps strips of 3mm membrane are torched around the perimeter turned into the copper gutter
base sheet laid around chimney and 3mm thick upstands torched on view of the overnight seal between the old roof and the fleece back base sheet
view from above, from left, new base sheet, bare boards, newish section which will remain laying the fleece backed base sheet to the second section, the angles of the roof slope can be seen here
Irish Mike is nailing around the perimeter edge the base sheet is completed, looking across the harbour at Eastbourne
looking out over the finished base layer, over Seatoun to the harbour and the Hutt Valley the base sheet is completed, looking along the coast at Wellington city
nailing the base and torching the smooth surfaced Paralon NT4 cap sheet to the base sheet main part of the roof laid with the smooth surfaced Paralon NT4 cap sheet
Torching and rolling in the last piece of horizontal the new area is joined to the rear section which was relaid with a Torch membrane previously
just as the roof is completed the weather turns, raining in the Hutt Valley at the far end of Port Nicholson harbour roof is completed looking south east
roof is completed looking south west roof is coated with Aluminium UV resistant paint