Eccleshill Swimming Pool Roof

Objectives

The old felt roof on this building was tired, damaged from traffic over the years and failing. It was leaking in places which was causing damage to the building and had been holding water due to the lack of fall on most sections of the roof. The objective was to renew the roof, extend it’s life and create a fall to prevent the standing water.

Solutions

The existing felt roof was cleaned and all stone chippings present on the original roof were removed. Tapered insulation was then laid on the sections of the roof which had problems with standing water to create a fall towards the outlets. All other sections of the roof were insulated with a standard flat roof insulation.

Eagle GR100SA Self-adhesive VCL was laid over the insulation as a carrier membrane to ensure the liquid coating had a suitable

surface to bond to and to ensure all joints in the insulation were sealed, ready for liquid coating.

Ultraflex was then laid, fully reinforced using a wet on wet system over the VCL at a rate of 1.5Kg/M2. Once cured a further0.5Kg/M2 Ultraflex was laid over the surface before finishing with Ultratop.

Benefits

This building was transformed without the need to completely replace the existing roof structure, preserving and protecting the building whilst saving cost by leaving the original roof in place.

The new roof now has a minimum lifespan of 25 years and a 25year guarantee, backed by Eagle waterproofing.

Standing water is no longer a problem on this roof and all outlets are now working correctly, reducing maintenance work required.

PROJECT INFORMATION 

Construction

• Swimming Pool

Products Used

• Ultraflex
• Trim
• VCL
• VCL Primer

Constructor

• Hurricane Roofing

Supplier

• Rinus Roofing, Bradford

“The transformation of this building speaks for itself. It’s been a pleasure working with the Team from Hurricane roofing on this project and with our next project already underway I’m sure it will be the first of many”

Jim Mapplebeck, Eagle Waterproofing