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  • Waterproofing a roof from the inside?
  • jamesgarbett
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    I’ve inherited a garage which is great except it’s got a leaky corrugated steel roof

    For various reasons I’m not allowed to do any repairs on the roof itself

    What would be the best thing for me to put on the inside of the roof to at least stop some of the water getting thru to the floor? I’m thinking some kind of heavy duty plastic sheeting tacked from corner to corner

    Greybeard
    Free Member

    Are you allowed to stick patches on the underneath? Flashband would work.

    Matt24k
    Free Member

    You need to stop the water getting inside the garage unless you have some sort of internal drainage system as any repair method that is positioned below the existing structure will just collect water.
    Assuming that the corrugated steel roof has holes in it, I would attempt to patch those from the inside with sections of sheet, mastic and maybe fibre glass patches etc.

    jamesgarbett
    Free Member

    Yes I can do anything on the inside – needs to be cheap/temporary as the whole set of garages will be re-roofed in 2021

    joshvegas
    Free Member

    Poke umbrella through hole.

    Deploy umbrella.

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    if its localised and you know where its coming in.

    flash band + flashband primer

    if its all over and you can leave the garage open to the air for a few days – and its just for storage rather than actually for say turbo training.

    Fixrcryl it.

    Holyzeus
    Free Member

    Flexacryl or Acropol will seal 10mm gaps
    Good stuff

    kevs
    Free Member

    I used to work at a train depot with a leaky roof above an expensive electrical machine, the repair was clear polythene sheet spread out as an “under roof” with a hose fitting at the low point with a hose going to the drain nearby. It was awful but it worked.

    There is a picture on “on the tools” I think

    singlespeedstu
    Full Member
    jam-bo
    Full Member

    Positive pressure. Blow it out…

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