Owning your own home

I just looked at the EPC list and found someone half a mile away - think they popped around a day or so later and it cost about £40. Probably can't ask them to give you a better score on the basis of 'trust me, I'll do it' though. I got the impression most of them were one person bands given how many of them were just 'bobsEpcCerts@gmail.com' and a mobile number

It’s out of date due to Loft insulation/triple glazing/Lot20 compliant heating being fitted along with a change of rules, I want that better rating to help sell it.

@duncs didn’t realise it was that cheap! i’ll just find somebody local.

without doxxing myself (and i will remove photos in a few weeks), my new home has a garage. While this is great news in itself, it isn't flawless:

1. The roof is asbestos
   
2. When it rains very hard water comes in from the back due to shit guttering
   
3. When it rains very hard water also comes in through the roof due to asbestos not actually being 100% water impenetratable (sp?) and I think this is made worse due to the vast amount of undisturbed moss on top of the roof which seems to soak up and hold water
   
4. There is no electricity and thus no lighting or ways to charge di2 / tools etc.
   
   

Therefore, I want to get some people in to replace the roof and then get electricity wired over from my house (it is only next door - not impossible). Question is, given it is sheets of asbestos across the neighbouring garages, is it actually possible for someone to replace only my section of roof? I have no idea who owns the other 5 or 6 garages, so managing to orchestrate a mass re-roofing will be a nightmare.... photos of said garage below - welcome any input whatsoever

Seem to remember you can get an EPC just by filling in a questionnaire online… might be wrong though

In before the mass of responses to the garage...

Anyone got a eufy discount code?

Anyone got a eufy discount code?

They've got some good discounts on their own site at the moment. I just got one of their 2k doorbells + homehub with £70 off

New rules so no not possible.

There's loads in the app (just a sample below) depending on what you're looking for. Although those prices are often mirrored on Amazon and stuff does get discounted pretty often (on their website and Amazon) so worth a look at camelcamelcamel if it's something specific and you're not in a rush

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I think that type of building is "concrete sectional" if you need a key word. Has it been tested to establish it is asbestos and not regular fibre cement roofing?

It strikes me you have 3 options: 1) full Monty, 2) replace your panels and the neighbor(s) that share them, 3) spot repair.

My 2p is that it's worth the effort of identifying the other owners and trying to replace the whole roof. It strikes me as exactly the sort of thing where from 2yrs down the line until eternity you'll regularly bore your wife and kids about how; "I should have done it properly when we first moved in".

I may be naive but from a builders POV this strikes me as a lovely job. Reasonable size. Low effort. Easy access, not that visible/high ATD not required, rip off the old roof, chuck a new cement or corrugated iron one on. Maybe you could get fancy with new joists and a fiberglass roof. But even that's quick and easy. [edit: the Internet says this is a bad idea]

In my school those asbestos panels were in sections like regular corrugated iron, so it might just be garage 2 or 2 & 3 with the same sheet. But idk if there are issues with matching to new fibre cement panels. Worth exploring, but not certain.

If you have no luck there are roof sealing products - basically sticky gunk with fibers. You paint it on and it cures. So read the instructions, but probably cleaning followed by painting the whole area would make it water tight again. You could spot treat the holes underneath I guess, which would also bind any straggling fibers.

Ask @Dammit for his thoughts as he had a similar space.

There are also a lot of companies that specialise in garage roof repairs - they would advertise to me on social media when I'd been typing or talking about it myself.

Because garages that share a roof are not uncommon, they will presumably have worked on or at least come across similar problems before and would be able to tell you how/if it could be done.

My concern would be that any replacement of your roof that doesn't involve your immediate neighbour's roof as well might create another spot where water could get in.

Currently procrastinating and apparently you can get fleece lined anti-condensation corrugated iron panels. So it might be worth exploring various roof options. A mate has something similar and the condensation means you get drips that look like leaks.

Search on pistonheads and singletrack. They love this sort of stuff.

A mate has something similar and the condensation means you get drips that look like leaks.

I think this actually could also be the issue if it isn't fully 'leaking'; condensation is occuring/being accelerated by the water ingress from the crap guttering

My first port of call is to review the guttering situation/clear blockages at my neighbours and then monitor the situation over spring. I have a flat roof above our extension which is pooling water ontop of it (ticking time bomb) so was hoping to get an opinion on the roof of the garage at the same time

The current garage roof doesnt actually seem damaged at all - but I want there to be less leaks/condensation so I can actually store precious bikes in there and get a turbo trainer setup :-) a bonus would therefore be to remove the asbestos