Leaking roof lead on back apron of chimney
- Thread starter lmellers
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Got the back gutter delivered, went for the cheaper ladder option and brother in law helper and installed it, repointed most of the chimney....
Here's the videos of the finished job.
http://youtu.be/PlpMikmaTyw
http://youtu.be/8qM6c2g33Gs
Here's the videos of the finished job.
http://youtu.be/PlpMikmaTyw
http://youtu.be/8qM6c2g33Gs
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omg, I'm not going up there again!
I hired a 5 meter ladder to get up there more safely for £40 (after the sscaffolding quotes came in way above my budget) and bought some proper ropes to tie the pair of us to the chimney.
Had to push up the tiles (and remove one of the ridge tiles) to get the old back gutter out (recycling center was please to see it) and put the new one in.
Spent ages with the angle grinder getting all the old pointing out (I bought a five pack of diamond grinding discs that just managed it) and redoing it.
Luckily my brother in law is a roofer and brick layer and stupidly agreed to help me out. We did 5 to 1 on the pointing mix.
I did this in that warm ish spell (+7 degrees C) we had just before winter decided it hadn't finished with us yet. I wrapped the chimney in tarp for a week afterwards as the temperature went way below 0.
The main thing is (as Woody said right back at the begining I was not sure where the leak was coming from so was taking a bit of a punt just replacing the iiffy looking back gutter and repointing. We've had some heavy rain since the early part of the year and so far no sign of water inside, fingers crossed it stays that way.
I hired a 5 meter ladder to get up there more safely for £40 (after the sscaffolding quotes came in way above my budget) and bought some proper ropes to tie the pair of us to the chimney.
Had to push up the tiles (and remove one of the ridge tiles) to get the old back gutter out (recycling center was please to see it) and put the new one in.
Spent ages with the angle grinder getting all the old pointing out (I bought a five pack of diamond grinding discs that just managed it) and redoing it.
Luckily my brother in law is a roofer and brick layer and stupidly agreed to help me out. We did 5 to 1 on the pointing mix.
I did this in that warm ish spell (+7 degrees C) we had just before winter decided it hadn't finished with us yet. I wrapped the chimney in tarp for a week afterwards as the temperature went way below 0.
The main thing is (as Woody said right back at the begining I was not sure where the leak was coming from so was taking a bit of a punt just replacing the iiffy looking back gutter and repointing. We've had some heavy rain since the early part of the year and so far no sign of water inside, fingers crossed it stays that way.
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