| Comment | See if you can organise your own in depth roof report. I do a lot of work using rope access around Glasgow on tenements carrying out gutter cleaning, inspection, minor works etc.
Find out if there's a once or twice yearly gutter cleaning programme in place, especially twice if there's a lot of trees about. It's one of the easiest and forgot about jobs but can have a serious impact.
You will be surprised as to the state of some of the roofs as most factors work on charging the client maximum but will send out the cheapest roofer.
A lot of tenement owners/tenants take pride in their building and we have found that they tend to bypass the factor as they are mostly reactive and will wait until something goes wrong before they act.
Do your due diligence. Find out how old the roof is, what sort of maintenance plan is in place and chap the doors in the close and introduce yourself. See if they have a committee.
Oh and going by buying old vs new. Definitely old every time. |
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