Flat roofing around Ongar
Notes on the flat roofs that cover Essex homes, extensions and outbuildings.
Most houses around Chipping Ongar carry at least one flat roof somewhere — over a porch, a bay, a kitchen extension or a detached garage. This site looks at how those roofs are built, why they fail, and what tends to happen when they're renewed.
We've gathered site notes and observations from across the area: the forest-edge homes near Epping, the bungalows and outbuildings around North Weald Bassett, Harlow's new-town stock with its flat-roofed terraces, and the garden rooms going up in Chigwell. Each piece is grounded in the particular housing you actually find there.
The aim is to help you understand what you're looking at before anyone climbs a ladder.
