Guttering
As you can see those residents on our beloved Kenton Bar Estate have naught to fear from the inclement weather conditions now (Dec 2010-the amount and weight of snow turning to ice has ripped down the horizontal guttering af hundreds of houses on other estates apparently)why doth the residents need have no fear?... those geniuses Gordon Ryder & Peter Yates anticipated the problem 30 years ago: 'flat roofs good, slanted roofs bad'(4 legs good 2 legs bad...)...this resident of Hartburn Walk does not need to have his guttering repaired for he has none...however unfortunately the other poor sod now has a problem...
If your wondering how the rain water that fell on the flat roofs was removed without just pouring off down the walls and causing damp I seem to recall the roofs had like a outerlip with a lower inner horizontal roof bit with a down pipe drain hole built in to take the water away...I wonder if the roof was slightly sloped or if there was a kind of gutter channel to lead water away to the down pipe?...maybe someone can clarify this as I cant remember exactly and can't climb up on someone's roof can I !
ReplyDeleteGoM is quite correct. The flat roofs on the houses of Kenton Bar are constructed in the way he describes, with an internal drainpipe. (No doubt, the roofs have/had a gentle slope towards the drain). I know this because when the roof of my gran's T1 on Byrness was re-done in the late 1980s, debris entered the drainpipe and blocked it. This caused a roof leak, presumably because the pipe was sealed on the assumption that the downpipe would always be clear. I was unable to find any blockage, as it was further than I could get my arm down the pipe. When I reported the matter to the council they cleared the blockage very promptly, only for the garage to then flood. This is because they had only pushed the debris down the pipe, and it then blocked the open rainwater drain at the back of the garage! I cleared that blockage myself. The flat roofs on the garages, tended to be of a more conventional construction, with felt roofs, and gutters and drainpipes on the outside wall. The vandalisation of the latter, and the resulting counter-measures, being mentioned in another article.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside I could mention that the roofs on the few privately-owned T1's in the 1980s were often re-done only with felt, whereas the council owned properties still had the roof done properly. Had I lived in, let alone owned, one of the neighbouring properties, this would have caused me concern.
This is Hartburn Walk? - with a sloped roof?
ReplyDeleteThe rooftops were originally completely flat and this led to many many leaking roofs as the water pooled. Sometime in the 80's the council re-did the roofs for the millionth time and pit a slope so that the rainwater ran off towards the drains. All of the rooftops had a kind of white gravel on them - no idea what for.
ReplyDeleteNo master, the second photo is not of our beloved Kenton Bar Estate-it is from another horrible estate elsewhere...dummkopf...
ReplyDeleteAs for the white gravel-maybe to stop weeds growing? if they had used say bark chippings they would just blow off,but not so easily the gravel-I do believe the gravel(at least the first layer) was also like glued onto the roofing felt...
GoM is quite correct. The flat roofs on the houses of Kenton Bar are constructed in the way he describes, with an internal drainpipe. (No doubt, the roofs have/had a gentle slope towards the drain). I know this because when the roof of my gran's T1 on Byrness was re-done in the late 1980s, debris entered the drainpipe and blocked it. This caused a roof leak, presumably because the pipe was sealed on the assumption that the downpipe would always be clear. I was unable to find any blockage, as it was further than I could get my arm down the pipe. When I reported the matter to the council they cleared the blockage very promptly, only for the garage to then flood. This is because they had only pushed the debris down the pipe, and it then blocked the open rainwater drain at the back of the garage! I cleared that blockage myself. The flat roofs on the garages, tended to be of a more conventional construction, with felt roofs, and gutters and drainpipes on the outside wall. The vandalisation of the latter, and the resulting counter-measures, being mentioned in another article.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside I could mention that the roofs on the few privately-owned T1's in the 1980s were often re-done only with felt, whereas the council owned properties still had the roof done properly. Had I lived in, let alone owned, one of the neighbouring properties, this would have caused me concern.