Roofs in Edenvale
Edenvale began in 1903 as a settlement around the Rietfontein gold mine and became a municipality in 1942. Today it is part of the City of Ekurhuleni, with residential suburbs such as Edenglen, Dowerglen, Edenvale Central, Eastleigh and Illiondale alongside industrial areas like Sebenza.
Clusters and townhouses have been going up in Edenvale Central, while buyers in Eastleigh and Illiondale have been renovating older properties. Both mean roof work: shared roofs that a body corporate looks after, and older roofs that need the timbers and sheeting checked before anything else is done.
When an older house is being renovated, the roof is the right place to start. Fixing the frame and the covering first protects everything you spend on the inside.
Worth checking on roofs like these
- Timbers and battens on older roofs, before a renovation starts
- Rusted metal sheets and fixings
- Joins between new additions and the original roof
- Cracked or slipped tiles on complex roofs
- Old waterproofing patches
