Jette · 1090
Roof structure & framing à Jette
Repairs to rafters, purlins and verges, timber treatment included. In Jette the interwar roofs are starting their second life.
7 km from our depot in Grimbergen
What that changes here
Under the Brussels mansard roofs there is an old, slender roof structure, often weakened where the box gutter has leaked for decades. So the damage is almost always on the facade side, in the wall plate and the rafter ends. We open that up before putting a price forward: from below, nothing shows.
Jette is largely interwar: terraced and semi-detached houses from the 1920s and 1930s, in clay tile or first-generation concrete tile, with dormers added later. Towards the Laerbeek wood the gardens get bigger and the slopes become shadier.
What we get called out for in Jette
In Jette the interwar roofs are starting their second life. We are called about tiles that have become brittle, about dormers added later and never properly flashed in, and about gutters giving up after eighty years. Rarely an emergency, often a roof that is finished.
Jette porte le code postal 1090 et se situe in the Brussels-Capital Region. Notre équipe part de Grimbergen, à 7 km : nous y planifions la charpente en même temps que les chantiers de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Schaerbeek et Brussels, pour qu’un déplacement serve plusieurs toitures.
- 01Probing
- 02Diagnosis
- 03Treatment
- 04Prevention
The full technical detail of this service is on the page Roof structure & framing.
Common questions
Pour un devis, la visite à Jette se fixe en général sous quelques jours ouvrés. Nous partons de Grimbergen, à 7 km, et nous groupons nos visites par secteur : si un chantier tourne déjà cette semaine à Molenbeek-Saint-Jean ou Schaerbeek, cela peut aller plus vite. En cas de fuite active, nous venons d’abord bâcher et sécuriser ; la charpente n’est chiffrée qu’ensuite.
A curative treatment carried out properly protects for about ten years. But the real protection is ventilation: a dry, ventilated loft interests neither insects nor fungi. So we put the ventilation right at the same time as the timber.
Four signs should raise the alarm: fine sawdust at the foot of the timbers, exit holes a few millimetres across, timber that sounds hollow under a hammer, and a smell of fungus in the loft. None of them is visible from the ground — which is why we always go up.
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Roof structure & framing à Jette
We come out, we go up onto the roof, we photograph. The quotation follows within 24 working hours, item by item.
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