If you are scared of heights don't attempt to repair your roof. If, however, you are confident at working from ladders and lightweight scaffolding towers, then the jobs described here aren't difficult.
Ladders or scaffolding must be tied into the building and placed on firm ground. Get someone to support the bottom until you have tied the top. Use a ladder stay to give a good point of contact with the building. Warn everyone that you will be working on the roof, and erect barriers to keep people away. Anyone working below should have a hard hat.
Leaking roofs can damage the interior of your home. Fortunately there are lots of user-friendly products which will help to keep the weather out.
Repairing leaks in roofs is normally the easy part. Finding out exactly where the leak is can be more difficult. Water can travel along the underside of beams and creep between close-fitting layers of roofing material, so the damp patch won't always appear directly below the leak. Eliminate all the possible causes one by one, rather than jumping to conclusions.
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