Author - Steven Dickinson

Part L1B of Building Regulations and Flat Roofing

A lot customers have never heard of Part L of the Building Regulations and I find myself explaining these regulations all the time, so I have uploaded this video and hope that it helps anybody looking to find out more. Part L and flat roofing are becoming more and more tied together. We always try to form a warm roof for our flat roofs, we find that a warm roof construction for flat roofing is by far the best flat roof.

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Kemperol Self-terminating System

Kemper is a liquid flat roofing membrane, it is not an EPDM rubber liquid. Kemper is a liquid resin that’s impregnated into a fleece fabric to give it depth and strength. As it’s a liquid flat roofing material it is easily applied to roofs with lots of detail on them. If we were to use a sheet roofing material e.g., sheet EPDM rubber, we would have to cut and patch the rubber in lots of different places, thus taking away the properties of using sheet materials.

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Warm Roof / Cold Roof

What is a warm roof? What is a cold roof? In this video I show a warm roof construction on a flat roof that has gone wrong, I show how a warm flat roof should be built and how a cold flat roof should be built. The term “Warm Roof” acutely refers to the space under the roof insulation and not the roof itself. The same applies to the term “Cold Roof”.

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