Stuff you have fixed today

[addjunkie]

Ridge tiles come in various angles to suit, Ive only ever used the concrete Marley stick on with cement type. They are various dry ridge systems too, of which I know nothing about. Sure @roofman will advise you on the different brands

 

[JOEPRO]

RE dry ridge here are photos of my recent retrofit dry ridge if it helps - storm blew off many of my cemented down ridge tiles and caused damage so I went dry ridge with mechanical fixings and its very strong.

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Going on (pressure treated batten added in there too just cant be seen)

 

[GRW]

RE dry ridge here are photos of my recent retrofit dry ridge if it helps - storm blew off many of my cemented down ridge tiles and caused damage so I went dry ridge with mechanical fixings and its very strong.

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Going on (pressure treated batten added in there too just cant be seen)

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Very nice! I think I fancy dry ridge type. I'll have a flap of membrane to go over the ridge woodwork.
(The other side of the roof needs to come off before I can sort ridges as it's knackered too, but in one piece atm as storm Darragh only attacked the side I'm on).
Interesting looking extra piece of weatherproofing you've laid on below the ridge tiles.... is that something you need as well as the Dry Ridges?

 

[JOEPRO]

Interesting looking extra piece of weatherproofing you've laid on below the ridge tiles.... is that something you need as well as the Dry Ridges?

My house has traditional bitumen underlay from the 80's.

UV light had degraded the existing bitumen felt at the ridge. Which meant in my scenario any rain water which could reach there would be straight into the inside of the roof.

So I used DPC strips that I had to hand when I was working on my roof over a weekend and added those to help redirect any water that might but should not get in there back onto the top of the existing felt below.

 

[GRW]

I took advantage of some help from the OH, and the dry, calm weather tonight. I got onto the roof ASAP after work (up there just after 5pm) and was done at 8:30pm. I ran out of roof batten so not  quite done.... but nearly ready to fit Weatherboards, those trays I just learned about, then dive in and see how Iget on with some slating

 

[indy4x]

@GRW I've used the same dry ridge system on our house and garage, way easier and cleaner than trying to use cement

 

[DennisCA]

The fender renovation took a step forward, epoxy primed the right fender for the volvo 850, still need to do some more filler work I noticed on the left one.

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

The chrome side pipe on a neighbours transit van fell off at the rear, the bracket seemed to have been bolted to a stud coming out of the inner face of the sill but had detached itself.

I ran a weld down the side of the bracket onto the sill. He was over the moon.