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Hi
This is certainly a small lead bay should not be beyond the skills of any truly skilled plumber would be glad to visit and advise
regards
 
Chop back the cement rendering. 3" lead up stand and chased into the wall by 1". Fit a metal drip strip just above the lead and re-cement down on to the drip strip. Lead burn across the flat lead covering, or replace the whole lot.
 
Grumpy old Plum said:
Hi
This is certainly a small lead bay should not be beyond the skills of any truly skilled OLDER plumber would be glad to visit and advise
regards
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Hope you don't mind too much Grumpy but thought a small modification to your post was in order!! What you recon, a days work the lot, then good for the next hundred years. (Flashband :nono: not on my house)
 
I think you will find that, if you take off the render, that the lead flashing will be turned up against the wall.
You probably have cracks in the lead on the fold up.
The best solution is to redo the lead work, including removing the first 100mm to 150mm of render and replacing the section along the wall.
The other solution is to use a product called 'sicaflex'.Its like a silicon- but enormously better.
Cut all the old silicon away and run a decent bead of sicaflex along the joint of the render and the lead.
We use sicaflex for all waterproofing of joints in shower cubicules, under the fibreglass covering.
Its great stuff - sticks like turds to a blanket - and remains strong and flexible for a long time. More so than silicon.

Oz Plumber
 
The render should be a minimum of. 65mm above the deck. It's probably soaking, all that silicone helping to bridge gap and aid the capillary action. Bet you haven't actually got a leak it's the water in render dripping through . Either the spread or the roofer wasn't thinking. .
 
Grumpy old Plum said:
Hi
This is certainly a small lead bay should not be beyond the skills of any truly skilled plumber would be glad to visit and advise
regards
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Hello. So are local to my area then? I am not yet a truly skilled plumber! On my way though🙂. If you are keen and peices are right we can crack on
 
Grumpy old Plum said:
Hi
This is certainly a small lead bay should not be beyond the skills of any truly skilled plumber would be glad to visit and advise
regards
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Hmm, remember most lead work isnt even being taught now in colleges, let alone on the job site.

very few employers are even willing to teach it due to having to get your moneys worth out of apprentices.

its very much the roofers job now sadly.

its a alightly outdated view that you have to be able to do lead work to be a skilled plumber
 
Killy Bing said:
Hmm, remember most lead work isnt even being taught now in colleges, let alone on the job site.

very few employers are even willing to teach it due to having to get your moneys worth out of apprentices.

its very much the roofers job now sadly.

its a alightly outdated view that you have to be able to do lead work to be a skilled plumber
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No sorry it is very much a "Leadwork" job now !!!! (a trade in it own right). Not IMHO a roofers job.
 

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