Roofs and roofing : performance, diagnosis, maintenance, repair and the avoidance of defects

This book is about roofs and roofing: the materials and production methods and criteria that are used in the construction of these major elements of buildings.
More specifically, its purpose is to draw attention of the readers to features of roofs and roofing that ensure good performance, and to the things that go wrong so that they can be avoided.

Year by year, reports from BRE and construction industry institutions point to the consistently high levels of problems in roofs of all types and sizes: not just problems with new designs and materials for roofs (where lack of experience might reasonably explain faults and failures) but with traditional and well tried forms of construction.
For all types and ages of roofs, statistics show that around 25% have  faults of varying degrees of seriousness with the least serious having the potential for eventual failure.

Roofs and roofing draws from BRE experience to provide the building professional with a checklist of points of concern with roofing and with sources of further information and advice. The text has been enhanced by:
- over 200 photographs, some 50 of which are new to this edition,
- over 200 drawings of roofs and roof construction details,
- many other drawings, maps, charts, graphs and tables
- case studies, feature panels and checklist, including a surveyor's inspection list at the end of each chapter on roof types and coverings.