Ugly dry verges

[^woody^]

What is wrong with people?

This first one is going to give me nightmares for weeks

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Have some nice feature brickwork and ... BAM!

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• 21 Jun 2013
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This will look wonderful in a year or so

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• 21 Jun 2013
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I hope this one is hidden when its done

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• 21 Jun 2013
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This one fits in a treat

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[Mw Roofline]

Hate em with a passion...

 

[rjm2k]

To be fair they look worse because of the white wood, where the verge doesn't have that next to it they look better.

 

[noseall]

To be fair they look worse because of the white wood, where the verge doesn't have that next to it they look better.

"to be fair"

"to be honest"

"if I'm being honest"

"I'm not being funny but"

I personally can not stand all of the above precursors to sentences. However I dislike dry verge units even more....and that is saying something.

 

[^woody^]

All those types in the photos are crap. There is no two ways about it

The only ones that do work and look OK, are the continuous ones. These can give some nice lines - especially if the colour is chosen well.

The problem is that the people fitting/recommending these to customers are doing so with no thought whatsoever to the design and what they look like. They are just selling a "maintenance free" solution, without a care in the world

 

[rjm2k]

The ones above don't match the character or style of the properties, you could say the same thing about window frames. I moved from one 80's newbuild estate to another, the first had white frames everywhere and I never thought anything of it. The second has brown frames everywhere, I wasn't as keen originally but now they are ok, except that the odd house has changed them (and their doors) to white and they stick out like a sore thumb and look terrible in the context of where they are, had they been in the first estate they would have been ok (probably).

 

[noseall]

I must confess to having them on my own home....however in mitigation, there is a reason. The gable elevation borders the Church land and i didn't want the headache or liability of having to seek permission for any future maintenance.

And they have been fitted correctly with full length battens etc.

Be aware also that you can not close the batten gauge down too much when intending to use D.V. units because they won't work.

 

[rjm2k]

See if you can work this one out, this house is at the back of mine, can't figure out why anyone would do this!

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[noseall]

You mean why has only a dozen units survived in a gentle breeze when the installer took time to screw into the failing verge mortar!

 

[rjm2k]

I did wonder if there had been more that fell off but afaik the other side doesn't have any at all. And if that had been the case, surely they would sort it out if they had gone to the bother of putting them on in the first place?

 

[Nige F]

The Itinerant Roofers have been there . The rest are verge ing on the ridiculous

 

[catlad]

I would say about 1 in 10 houses I see with these fitted has one or more missing.

 

[Birminghamroofer]

I have read a lot of these post and i have came to one conclusion. it comes down to if the customer likes the look and it is installed correctly then were is the problem i agree when installed wrong they do look bad [/quote]

 

[noseall]

i agree when installed wrong they do look bad

And they don't last.

 

[Birminghamroofer]

but installed correctly they last and look good on modern type buildings