Here's a situation that's fairly common for homes of a certain scale built in the teens and '20s: The home's detached garage, usually set against the rear property line, often had a flat roof with ...

Read more: Do Garage Door Insulation Kits Actually Work? Here's What You Need To Know Even though flat roofs can instantly make a home look more opulent and intentionally designed, they take a ...

As it is, the garage on Rawlinson Road is single storey flat-roof garage, but if plans are approved by Oxford City Council this will be knocked down and replaced with a garage, studio and greenhouse.

While flat-roof systems have an official lifespan of about 25 years, anyone who actually has a flat roof knows you’re lucky if you get a decade out of them before they start to leak and ...