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Thanks for your replies. Its basically a 3" wide / 1" deep strip of cement that runs the entire length of the 'hip' on each corner of the house. The house is in North East Scotland and I've seen it on other houses with these but never in any other part of the country. I've attached a couple...

Hello, Yes the spelling is correct. These are cement strips that run along the hip edge on a slate roof, mine are damaged and I've been quotes £1100+vat to repair them but I was thinking of maybe tackling these myself but I can't find any information about them anywhere. Has anyone every...

Sorry, I didn't attach them properly... Undamaged Side: Roof_hip_joint_good by NAS_DIY posted 28 Feb 2016 at 12:41 PM Damaged side: Roof_hip_joint by NAS_DIY posted 28 Feb 2016 at 12:38 PM Attached now, Cheers

Hello, I've recently bought an old farm house in Scotland and I'm about start some repairs on the roof due to a leak. The house is more than 100 years old and not been maintained very well so its in need of some TLC. The roof hip joints appear to be a single continuous run on concrete/cement...

Undamaged roof hip ridge

Damaged roof hip ridge joint

Picture damage roof hip ridge