If you can paint, you can probably seal your flat roof DIY-style, but even if you have to hire someone, it’s not a terribly expensive job.

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Two bosses of a firm that conned people into buying fake thermal roof paint in an "£8m racket" have been jailed. Therma Seal workers used "aggressive and fraudulent" techniques to sell a product ...

HUGH MILLER spent £1575 on a revolutionary new coating for his roof after it was plagued by leaks. The rubberised solution came with a 10-year, no quibble guarantee which he thought was an ...

Lifestyle Your Place: Elastomeric roof coatings last long, if not a lifetime Originally published September 6, 2011 at 6:49 am Updated September 6, 2011 at 9:01 am ...

A coating of lime wash "can cost as little as 1.5 rupees (£0.017; $0.02) per sq ft to more expensive reflective coatings or membranes", says Ms Jaiswal.

It said in one case a 91-year-old woman paid £13,000 for the roof coating. In another example, Stephen Bannister, from Stourbridge, paid more than £3,000 for the work.