Rudi McAnichal
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I would suggest (speaking as a complete amateur) that task of actually fitting the dry verge units can often be fairly simple, and that the real skill lies is in deciding exactly what needs to be done to suit a particular roof construction.Those are the shape of my tiles.....can't be that hard a troop of monkeys fitted the two houses next door and over the road they used one ladder and walked over the rest of the roof. lol
Dry verge appears to me like a straightforward fit on the gable shown in your photos, where you have full width tiles with a flattish profile. Have a look at the other gable end before you begin, just to check, because many houses have part-width tiles at one gable (where the roof width was not an exact multiple of the tile width). “Double Roman” profile tiles (two big humps, like a Bactrian camel) are common around here, and some dry verge designs do not sit in place very well if these tiles have been cut in the region of the “trough”.
Manufacturers’ instructions mostly suggest fixing the units with ring nails. Being pessimistic by nature, I used screws, so that it would be easier to remove and re-fit the units if I made a mess of it.