Old corrugated iron shed wall replacement

[ort67]

Good old shed, best off not having all the timber, stones and leaves on the roof, it just accelerates rot. If the sheets are lifting in the wind get them secured down.
Traditionally it was twist nails, with galv or rubber washers, which you can still get, but tek screws and an impact driver are easier!

If you redo the roof defiantly worth adding a few skylights. You can get plastic/fibreglass to match the profile of the tin, or the old fashioned way was a tin sheet with a frame in the middle to take 2 panes of glass.

The timber and stones were put up there as extra security in gale force winds, it will all be taken away when we replace the sheets.

I wonder if there could be a protection order on any of these kinds old tin sheds, a lot of them seem to be disappearing which is a shame. I guess it would be easy to get permission to demolish them for safety reasons as sheets of tin flying around would be dangerous.

Does anyone know a good place to get sheets of corrugated iron? There is a jewsons near, they might have them.

 

[JohnD]

there are specialist suppliers, usually seem to be for the agricultural trade, I forget the price per sheet, but it is not much. Well under £20 a sheet. Delivery will be extra, customers usually have their own transport.

Some will cut to order at extra cost

If you are carrying more than one or two, they get very heavy, especially on a roofrack.

Take a piece of your old one to check it matches the profile you buy.

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And you can get curved sections for roofing. Two common sizes are for pig arks and shepherd's huts. I presume the people with the machinery could curve other sections to order, or you could just buy a readimade oversize and trim it to fit. Some kind of roller press I suppose.

 

[JohnD]

OOI, some pictures of my BiL's historic (listed) house in Australia

 

[ort67]

OOI, some pictures of my BiL's historic (listed) house in Australia

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That house looks great. Houses with tin roofs might work well in places in Australia with low rainfall, but living somewhere with lots of rain it must be quite noisy.

There are some long abandoned 100+ year old houses (more like huts) in my area that have corrugated iron roofs with no sound proofing at all, must have been a nightmare at times.

 

[JohnD]

some of those older houses, hotels and pubs also have ceilings made of steel plate nailed up, some of them embossed to replicate fancy plasterwork.

I think due to plenty of steelworks, and shortage of skilled workmen.
And galvanised might have been fairly easy to transport and store.

The mineral content of Australian rock is also different to UK and Europe. I don't know if that affect price of brick clay. They still have much better availability of good timber than we do.

 

[Tigercubrider]

Having watched an American tv prog "salvage dogs" it looks as if the USA (and Australia?) used pressed metal as ceiling decoration where in the uk we used moulded plaster. We had rail and canal transport for manufactured but delicate items, plus onsite craftsmen to make stuff.
Presumably a lot of (period) Victorian stuff was mail order and pressed metal ceiling decoration was easy to pack and transport, and relatively easy for a non skilled person to fit

https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-pres...n-briefs/49Preserve-Brief-DecorativeMetal.pdf

 

[scbk]

Does anyone know a good place to get sheets of corrugated iron? There is a jewsons near, they might have them.

Jewsons... are you near Inverness then?
HIS keep a few sizes of corrugated in stock in the builders yard side
Allans of Gillock will order it in
SIG roofing keep box profile in stock
Planwell Roofing (Buckie) manufacture box profile and deliver it on their own lorries

 

[scbk]

For all the anoraks, BBC Alba did an interesting programme on tin houses a couple years ago, not currently on iplayer but here is a short clip


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0360srh

 

[ort67]

For all the anoraks, BBC Alba did an interesting programme on tin houses a couple years ago, not currently on iplayer but here is a short clip


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0360srh

Nice program.

Below is a video I took of an old tin house earlier this year, think it was built around 1910 and inhabited until the 1940s maybe, think it might be getting demolished soon too.

I tried uploading the video to this site but it kept failing.

https://imgur.com/a/RsoJKJT

 

[ort67]

I've found somewhere that does Galvanised Steel Corrugated Roofing Sheets for quite cheap, is it best practice to paint them before putting them up? If so does anyone know what paint to use?

 

[footprints]

Hammerite do a direct to galvanised paint as I recall

 

[ort67]

Hammerite do a direct to galvanised paint as I recall

Yeah I saw that paint on amazon, one of the reviewers said they only got 2.4m2 out of a £24 750ml tin of it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hammerite-5097049-750ml-Direct-Galvanised/dp/B003IMKEEY

Plastisol PVC coated galvanized steel seems to be £12 per m2 vs around £6 per m2 for bare galvanized steel, seems like it could be worth just going for he PVC coated version as it will save from the cost of having to paint it?

 

[footprints]

Pre treated will save a lot of work and give a better finish might need to treat the cut ends though.

 

[lostinthelight]

https://premiumpaints.co.uk/collections/agricultural-barn-and-industrial-building-paints

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Pre treated will save a lot of work and give a better finish might need to treat the cut ends though.

I read up on it, on the manufacturers website before buying it and what it said was the act of cutting it (if you use crossing blades, like a shearing action) with tin snips, spreads the galv over the cut edge to protect the edge. That seems to be true, because I had to trim a small corner and there has been no rust despite the years since I cut it.