Hi There,
I am having to replace my Garage/Extension Roof which presently is made up of Concrete double roman roof tiles and about 50 Half Round concrete Ridge tiles. The roof is about 35 years old and the Sarking felt is rotting around the edges (fragments of which I have found lying in the gutters when I clean them).
The old felt looks ok underneath inside the loft space but I know there are a few holes in the old Sarking felt that were noticed when I merged the Garage roof with a new Extension roof. The new Extension roof tiling isn’t great so I am replacing that too.
Recently, Storm Euwen damaged my roof lifting up 6 or so of the old Ridge tiles in a line which is another indication of a re-roof requirement.
My roof is a fair size with two hips and a valley comprising of approximately 850 tiles and 50 half round Ridge tiles.
The pitch is 25 degrees and it sits on a designed timber spec.
The present Ridge tiles are all cemented on top of the tiles but looking into re-roofing it, I notice most of the modern way seems to be utilising a ‘Dry Ridge’ technique which sometimes uses nails or screws in the plastic inserts between the Ridge tiles.
The concern with me is that I think perhaps there is a chance the screws /nails and plastic inserts are another reason for the roof to fail with wear in the future.
Indeed, after the recent gale, I found one of these plastic inserts (Ridge seal) near my house not realising what it was at first until looking around I noticed a nearby property where their recent extension was missing a seal between two of the Ridge tiles. There were however no screws on either side of the Ridge tiles or no apparent restriction to keep the seal in securely on that particulars neighbours extension.
Please Can you give me some advice on my Best way forward for a re-roof for the dry ridge option and what the general consensus is for this.
Or indeed, perhaps I should revert back to the ‘cemented on Ridge’ tile method which might mean a longer life for the roof.
Thanking you in anticipation for your comments.
I am having to replace my Garage/Extension Roof which presently is made up of Concrete double roman roof tiles and about 50 Half Round concrete Ridge tiles. The roof is about 35 years old and the Sarking felt is rotting around the edges (fragments of which I have found lying in the gutters when I clean them).
The old felt looks ok underneath inside the loft space but I know there are a few holes in the old Sarking felt that were noticed when I merged the Garage roof with a new Extension roof. The new Extension roof tiling isn’t great so I am replacing that too.
Recently, Storm Euwen damaged my roof lifting up 6 or so of the old Ridge tiles in a line which is another indication of a re-roof requirement.
My roof is a fair size with two hips and a valley comprising of approximately 850 tiles and 50 half round Ridge tiles.
The pitch is 25 degrees and it sits on a designed timber spec.
The present Ridge tiles are all cemented on top of the tiles but looking into re-roofing it, I notice most of the modern way seems to be utilising a ‘Dry Ridge’ technique which sometimes uses nails or screws in the plastic inserts between the Ridge tiles.
The concern with me is that I think perhaps there is a chance the screws /nails and plastic inserts are another reason for the roof to fail with wear in the future.
Indeed, after the recent gale, I found one of these plastic inserts (Ridge seal) near my house not realising what it was at first until looking around I noticed a nearby property where their recent extension was missing a seal between two of the Ridge tiles. There were however no screws on either side of the Ridge tiles or no apparent restriction to keep the seal in securely on that particulars neighbours extension.
Please Can you give me some advice on my Best way forward for a re-roof for the dry ridge option and what the general consensus is for this.
Or indeed, perhaps I should revert back to the ‘cemented on Ridge’ tile method which might mean a longer life for the roof.
Thanking you in anticipation for your comments.