rain during construction of house

Ramonapixie

Hi there,
We are currently building a house, the felt is on the roof, no tiles. The plasterboard and insulation are in place for the first floor. It has rained a bit over the last few days, should i be concerned about water damage? I have faith in my builder, but i would have thought the tiles should have gone on before the insulation and plaster. Any thoughts? thanks.

DOCARCH

Ideally the tiles should be on the roof before plasterboard goes in/on, but, the roofing felt is waterproof/watertight - it is the roofs second line of defence - so I wouldn't worry too much (assuming roof tiling is to follow soon).

Ramonapixie

Thank you Docarch, i was asking as the ground floor was quite wet today when i went down and can only assume it came in through the roof, at what stage should i worry? the tiling was meant to start a few days ago bur for some reason has been delayed.

endacl

Ramonapixie wrote: »

Thank you Docarch, i was asking as the ground floor was quite wet today when i went down and can only assume it came in through the roof, at what stage should i worry? the tiling was meant to start a few days ago bur for some reason has been delayed.

Don't accept 'for some reason'. They're off doing the tiling job for the customer who insisted.

Ramonapixie

true enough endacl, am going take this up first thing.

BryanF

Ramonapixie wrote: »

Hi there,
We are currently building a house, the felt is on the roof, no tiles. The plasterboard and insulation are in place for the first floor. It has rained a bit over the last few days, should i be concerned about water damage? I have faith in my builder, but i would have thought the tiles should have gone on before the insulation and plaster. Any thoughts? thanks.

You builder ( in the company of your architect) needs to explain to you why there is internal plasterboard being installed without a roof on?
Is the roofing membrane taped and fully sealed?
What other internal finishes are installed apart from the plaster board ceiling? Please tell us no electrics have started yet?

Ramonapixie

actually bryanf, there has been wiring work going on all right. as much as i understand the first fix is in place. carbon monoxide and electrical wires are in. it seems so obviously wrong now when someone questions it. the felt is pretty much in place but there are a couple of areas where it is flapping up. i have an engineer doing a certain amount of checking but i did opt out of full certification.

BryanF

Ramonapixie wrote: »

actually bryanf, there has been wiring work going on all right. as much as i understand the first fix is in place. carbon monoxide and electrical wires are in. it seems so obviously wrong now when someone questions it. the felt is pretty much in place but there are a couple of areas where it is flapping up. i have an engineer doing a certain amount of checking but i did opt out of full certification.

Is there a formal building contract in place?

The roof should be roofed tomorrow morning. No other work should take place until this is done.

Whatever about opting out of certification. You clearly should have someone looking after your interests.

But sure look, you thought you were saving money..

Ramonapixie

i have a contract in place and I have an engineer overseeing to work to a certain extent, i guess as someone who has never done anything like this before there are certainly pitfalls. in terms of saving money, i went for what i felt was middle ground as i felt that prices for full certification were v high and like most people I am working within a budget, that said i am paying thousands (double digits) for this middle ground.

BryanF

Ramonapixie wrote: »

i have a contract in place and I have an engineer overseeing to work to a certain extent, i guess as someone who has never done anything like this before there are certainly pitfalls. in terms of saving money, i went for what i felt was middle ground as i felt that prices for full certification were v high and like most people I am working within a budget, that said i am paying thousands (double digits) for this middle ground.

Assuming your engineer is the contract administrator, their phone should be burning in the morning.