Corini1985
2019-12-21 16:19:35
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Hello,
I would like to hear your opinion.
We have a roof terrace in the new building.
The substrate is concrete. Then I am not sure what comes next, definitely also an insulation layer, but all of this is under a sealed membrane (not sure what material this membrane is made of). Openings for rainwater drainage are present. There is also a slight slope.
On this membrane, slabs were laid using pedestals. Under each pedestal is a piece of mat (similar to those base mats for training equipment), then a stone slab, and on this stone slab another piece of mat. On top of this, the actual tiles were laid continuously.
Today I removed two of these tiles to take a look at how it looks there. It rained heavily the last two days, but not today. What was noticeable and strange to me was that there was quite a lot of standing water visible, which drains slowly or not at all.
Is standing water problematic? Could it freeze in the worst case or damage the membrane?
Or is this completely normal and harmless?
The construction management said in summer before handing over the house that this is not a problem, the water would evaporate and having some water standing is completely unproblematic for the material.
One of these mats visible as the substrate was even floating in the standing water....
Is this maybe all just defective and still to be reported as a defect (if still possible at all)?
Thank you

I would like to hear your opinion.
We have a roof terrace in the new building.
The substrate is concrete. Then I am not sure what comes next, definitely also an insulation layer, but all of this is under a sealed membrane (not sure what material this membrane is made of). Openings for rainwater drainage are present. There is also a slight slope.
On this membrane, slabs were laid using pedestals. Under each pedestal is a piece of mat (similar to those base mats for training equipment), then a stone slab, and on this stone slab another piece of mat. On top of this, the actual tiles were laid continuously.
Today I removed two of these tiles to take a look at how it looks there. It rained heavily the last two days, but not today. What was noticeable and strange to me was that there was quite a lot of standing water visible, which drains slowly or not at all.
Is standing water problematic? Could it freeze in the worst case or damage the membrane?
Or is this completely normal and harmless?
The construction management said in summer before handing over the house that this is not a problem, the water would evaporate and having some water standing is completely unproblematic for the material.
One of these mats visible as the substrate was even floating in the standing water....
Is this maybe all just defective and still to be reported as a defect (if still possible at all)?
Thank you