Many garages across Hillfields were originally roofed in traditional bitumen felt, and after years of sun, frost and rain that felt often reaches the point where patching it no longer makes sense. If your garage roof is cracking, bubbling or letting water through at the seams, replacing it with EPDM rubber is usually a sound long-term solution, and it is one of the most common upgrades Brunel Roofing Bristol carries out on garage roofs in the area.
EPDM is supplied in large sheets that can often cover a typical garage roof with very few joints, sometimes as a single piece depending on the roof dimensions. This is a real advantage over felt, which is generally applied in overlapping strips with multiple seams, each one a potential point of weakness over time. Fewer joints means fewer places for water to find a way in, which matters on a roof that gets relatively little attention compared with the rest of the house.
Before any old felt is stripped away, it is worth being clear that the covering itself is only part of the picture. The timber deck beneath a failed felt roof has often been absorbing moisture through cracks and open laps for a long time, and that can lead to softening or rot in the boards below. Once the felt comes off a Hillfields garage roof, that deck is inspected properly, and any weakened boarding is replaced before the new rubber membrane goes anywhere near it.
Garages present a slightly different set of considerations to a main house roof. They are often lower pitched, sometimes almost flat, which means drainage and falls need to be got right so that water is directed towards the gutter or outlet rather than sitting in puddles on the surface. EPDM performs well on these low-pitch structures precisely because it is fully bonded and flexible enough to accommodate the roof's shape without the ponding-related issues that can affect other systems.
Edge detailing is another area where garage roofs commonly fail. Felt roofs often rely on trims and dressed edges that can lift or crack with age, allowing water to track underneath. A well-installed EPDM system wraps and dresses the edges as part of the membrane itself, giving a cleaner and more weathertight finish along the perimeter of a Hillfields garage roof.
Cost-wise, replacing a garage roof with EPDM is generally a modest job in the context of roofing work, but the exact price still depends on the garage's size, the state of the deck once it is exposed, and how the edges and any features like a felt-to-wall junction need to be treated. It is not something that can be priced accurately without seeing the roof.
For Hillfields homeowners tired of patching up a tired felt garage roof, moving to EPDM is a practical, durable step forward. Brunel Roofing Bristol can assess your garage roof, confirm whether replacement rather than further repair is the right call, and give you a clear, honest quotation for the work involved.
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