SIKA AT WORK DIDSBURY ROAD SCHOOL, STOCKPORT ROOFING: Sika Liquid Plastics’ Decothane Ultra 20-year system, Decotherm 130mm insulation, Primer 600 and S-Vap 5000 BACKGROUND A popular primary school with around 1000 children on roll, Didsbury Road School in Stockport is a large single storey building located within a conservation area. The building’s flat roof features large glazed areas along with a small number of traditional roof lights. Both the roof covering and the glazed areas were in a poor state of repair: large areas of the existing felt roof covering had delaminated. Meanwhile, some of the glazing was broken, allowing vegetation to grow through the roof, and there was water ingress in a number of locations. To address these issues, a roof refurbishment was carried out

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