📋 Your safeguard
Every dormer roof and warm roof upgrade we carry out is inspected and approved by an independent Building Control inspector — not us. Here is exactly how that process works, and why it matters.
Any work that alters the insulation, structure or means of escape of a roof — including a dormer warm roof upgrade — falls under the Building Regulations. There are two ways a roofer can demonstrate that work complies: self-certification through a competent person scheme, where the company doing the work also signs it off, or independent Building Control, where a separate inspector with no connection to the job reviews and approves it.
We always use the second route. It costs us more in time and coordination than simply self-certifying, but it means the sign-off on your roof is a genuinely impartial check — not just our own word that the job is compliant.
The inspector checking the work has no financial stake in the outcome. They are not employed by us and have nothing to gain by approving substandard work.
You receive a formal completion certificate from the local authority's Building Control process — a legal record of the work, not just an invoice from us.
Solicitors and buyers' surveyors routinely request Building Control certification for roof alterations. Without it, a sale can be delayed or a mortgage lender can raise concerns.
Structural or insulation work carried out without proper Building Control sign-off can complicate an insurance claim later, even years after the work was done.
Before any work starts, we lodge a Building Control application with your local authority, describing the work and the specification it will be built to.
An inspector independent of Select Roofing Services is assigned to the job. They have no involvement in carrying out the work itself.
The inspector visits at the appropriate points during the job — typically once the structure is exposed and again once the insulation and vapour control layer are installed, before the roof is closed up.
Once the job is complete, the inspector carries out a final check against the approved specification.
You receive a formal Building Control completion certificate confirming the work meets the required standard. Keep this with your property documents.
We use the same independent Building Control process on every warm-deck flat roof upgrade, not just dormer roofs, since both involve the same kind of structural and insulation alteration covered by the Regulations.
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