Roof Leak – Incline and Box Gutter Questions ?

[Joseph Cuccurullo]

I need some help here.

I purchased a property and for over a year the roof has leaked, despite 3 attempts to fix it and it being replaced.

all the info is on http://www.LendLeaseDefects.com

The building is Twin Waters, north of Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast. It ranis a lot here !

Questions:

1) It is a “Spandek Ultra” roof with a (supposed) pitch of 1.5 degrees (the digital inclinemeter I used show between 0.6 degrees and 1.5 degrees) – I think the pitch should be 3 degrees which the manufacturer recommends.

2)Is this area of Queensland in the cyclone area ? If so then the roof in it’s current design should not have been used ! The Cyclone area is below 27 degrees south, which is around Brisbane.

3) When in the design stage is a “Hydraulic Engineer” required to be used ? (Area of roof, amount of rainfall etc). I think an architect did this without knowing the rainfall and local conditions.

Cheers, Pete

[FIXMYROOFParticipant]

On further investigation it was found to be a “KLIP-LOK 406” roof, not the “Spandek Ultra” roof that Lend Lease told told me when I asked.

Manufacturer indicates warranty will apply only if the minimum pitch is 5 degrees !

Lend Lease have built hundreds of units here on the Sunshine Coast where the roofs have no warranty !

There have been over 80 incidents of water entering these units, I wonder why ?

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