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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.
Old
In progress
Going on (pressure treated batten added in there too just cant be seen)
Old
In progress
Going on (pressure treated batten added in there too just cant be seen)
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?
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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.
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 
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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.
I ran a weld down the side of the bracket onto the sill. He was over the moon.
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I put a camera on the pond a while ago, but the cat5 cable was just thrown onto the ground "temporarily", so only a matter of time before it failed. Its been down for about 3 months and I'm getting ear ache 
I buried 20m of blue HDPE pipe a couple of weeks ago and eventually got around to putting the new cable through it, I also moved the camera so it was more central on the pond. I just need to adjust the camera a tad to the left and its all sorted.
I buried 20m of blue HDPE pipe a couple of weeks ago and eventually got around to putting the new cable through it, I also moved the camera so it was more central on the pond. I just need to adjust the camera a tad to the left and its all sorted.Camera? Are you afraid of someone nicking the pond?I put a camera on the pond a while ago, but the cat5 cable was just thrown onto the ground "temporarily", so only a matter of time before it failed. Its been down for about 3 months and I'm getting ear ache
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addjunkie
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Its to watch Bambi skinny dipping now theve introduced age verification!Camera? Are you afraid of someone nicking the pond?
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Camera? Are you afraid of someone nicking the pond?
They will nick most things around here, neighbour had two e-bikes nicked last week. Smashed a window in his barn, they slept through the alarm.
But no, purely to watch nature's majesty.
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What??
Does King Charles skinny dip in your pond? Does Camilla join him?
That's a mind bleach thought.
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...I said I was going to try and get off the Karcher merry-go-round....but 
One last attempt, a new pressure housing and 30quid later...we have a reprieve from death row for the power washer.... sometimes you just can't resist the urge to fix stuff
Hairline crack in the outlet, tried a plastic welding job but had admit defeat and buy a new housing....
Managed to crack the inlet reassembling though but some epoxy and mesh sorted that
One last attempt, a new pressure housing and 30quid later...we have a reprieve from death row for the power washer.... sometimes you just can't resist the urge to fix stuff
Hairline crack in the outlet, tried a plastic welding job but had admit defeat and buy a new housing....
Managed to crack the inlet reassembling though but some epoxy and mesh sorted that
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My house has traditional bitumen underlay from the 80's. <<<<<<The old type 1F, most 1F type felts have all rotted now coming from that era. Back in the day when "breathable roof spaces" where not even invented
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.
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i havent fixed it yet.... i have diagnosed it.
the ac stopped working in my merc c220.
this is a disaster, i cant have a mercedes with no a/c.!!!
not at all to mention it is also commanding the cooling fans on to max at all times...
the ac pressure switch is showing short to ground. the pressure reading in the ecu is about 6500bar :shock:
the command inhibit list shows pressure too high (go figure) and just to double check, the coolant temp is about the same as the oil temp.
ill be needing one of these then....
mercedesgenuineparts.co.uk
and it vacced down and recharged.... bugger.
the ac stopped working in my merc c220.
this is a disaster, i cant have a mercedes with no a/c.!!!
not at all to mention it is also commanding the cooling fans on to max at all times...
the ac pressure switch is showing short to ground. the pressure reading in the ecu is about 6500bar :shock:
the command inhibit list shows pressure too high (go figure) and just to double check, the coolant temp is about the same as the oil temp.
ill be needing one of these then....
Genuine Mercedes Air Conditioning Condenser Pressure Sensor A211000028
Suitable for various models.
mercedesgenuineparts.co.uk
and it vacced down and recharged.... bugger.
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fix confirmed, with a new pressure sensor in its reading 0psi and throwing a out of range code in the climate options, and no fault at all in the communication module (where it had stored the short/open circuit fault.)i havent fixed it yet.... i have diagnosed it.
the ac stopped working in my merc c220.
this is a disaster, i cant have a mercedes with no a/c.!!!
not at all to mention it is also commanding the cooling fans on to max at all times...
the ac pressure switch is showing short to ground. the pressure reading in the ecu is about 6500bar :shock:
the command inhibit list shows pressure too high (go figure) and just to double check, the coolant temp is about the same as the oil temp.
ill be needing one of these then....
Genuine Mercedes Air Conditioning Condenser Pressure Sensor A211000028
Suitable for various models.
and it vacced down and recharged.... bugger.
its just cable tied up out of the way until i get a chance to get it vacuumed and recharged. you may wonder why i did that rather than wait until i change it to plug the new sensor in. well the fault code it causes makes all the cooling fans run flat out, which is bad, so stopping them running constantly was my main priority. getting the ac fixed is a secondary concern.
