Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Roof leakage dispute with - Eden Brae Homes. How to fix 6Dec 25, 2020 1:28 am Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Roof leakage dispute with - Eden Brae Homes. How to fix 7Dec 25, 2020 12:05 pm chippy rajesh Pulse rain can leak under ridge capping if the wind blows hard enough, depends on the angle of the roof and if the troughs are turned up or not. Poor design can exacerbate the risk eg if a spreader from a roof above dumps too much water there. Hi Pulse, Do you how to fix this issue and what could be the real reason that builder is denying to fix it? It is a new house built last year by Eden Brae Homes. As pulse said any roof under 25⁰ has to have the top ends of the valleys turned up. This prevents wind driven rain from being pushed up the sheets and over the top edge. This picture is from the Lyshart installation manual and shows how that is done. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ They may have missed one of those turn ups where you have indicated or it may even be further up the roof and the water has run down the hip inside the roof until it drips off. Often where you see a water mark isn't where the actual leak is because water tends to run. As to why the builder is reluctant to want to fix it? $$$ They have to pay someone to do it. It's easier to just hope it was the result of some particularly bad weather And leave it at that. Technically to put someone on the roof they should scaffold the building or the guys should be harnessed as it's double storey. The simplest thing for the builder to do is get on the roof, pull up that hip capping and make sure the turn ups are in place. If they are then they need to start checking further up. I'd even have a look the whirlybird at the very top of the hips and make sure the leak isn't happening there. Good luck. Hi Chippy, thank you for the information. Now I understand that - If the roof sheets under the ridge caps had sufficient length and turned up properly up-to the cap, then it would have prevented the rainwater to get inside even there is wind blow. This can be inspected and fixed only by removing the ridge cap. One of their sub-contractor Adrian also advised to remove the ridge cap to inspect and fix the issue with scaffolding. This work was planned to perform in new year and approved by their maintenance manager Jason, who quit Eden Brae last week. After Jason resigned, their Operations Manager Mick Gee and other Construction Managers are just trying to close this issue by fabricating a story related to a catastrophe rain happened in Feb'2020. In fact my house is in brand new estate with all newly build houses around in a outer Sydney suburb, and I haven't heard any damages or leakages in other new houses in the estate. It seems Eden Brae is trying to take that rain category as an opportunity to avoid this leakage problem. Can a builder like Eden Brae get away from a roof leakage problem by claiming that it was not a normal weather condition? When their another sub-contractor, MacDonald Jones Homes(MJH) inspected the roof they identified the toilet stint pipe in roof was not sealed and then they sealed; So there is no wonder if there are more issues by this builder. This is 25 degree pitch roof as per contract. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thank you once again for this information. Now I strongly believe that this builder must fix his defect and I will try my best. I built with EB back on 2009. Check out this thread on this forum. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12911&p=154061#p154061 I can't speak for recent expericience however, we had no… 1 23371 I agree with Althom but there also may be a problem with the terra cotta stormwater pipe discharging water in that areas as well. You can just see the top of the pipe at… 2 15821 yes it does, you've just not understood it. theres a difference. 4 5331 |