while many properties enjoy sarking felt or breathable membrane, as a secondary protection from wind, dust, rain etc, many earlier roofs and some current roofs, do not.
while i fully agree and see the merits of an under-felted (sarking) roof, i do not however, go weak at the knees and tremble when i come across a house without a secondary membrane.
this then leads me to the tactics of upvc fascia installers who bravely tackle the issue or rotten eaves felt.
shock horror.
they procrastinate, posture and blather about the miraculous merits of eaves protectors and the importance of dry fascias and rafter ends. they will tell you, with much drama, how the entire bottom half of your roof could simply rot away without eaves protectors.
it is as though the first course of (eaves) tiles does not exist ffs.
roof tiles have for centuries kept roofs dry without membranes or eaves trays and protectors. it is only when a tile failure, and prolonged water ingress thereafter, does any danger to the eaves timber occur.
.....and, only when felt is used.
while i fully agree and see the merits of an under-felted (sarking) roof, i do not however, go weak at the knees and tremble when i come across a house without a secondary membrane.
this then leads me to the tactics of upvc fascia installers who bravely tackle the issue or rotten eaves felt.
shock horror. they procrastinate, posture and blather about the miraculous merits of eaves protectors and the importance of dry fascias and rafter ends. they will tell you, with much drama, how the entire bottom half of your roof could simply rot away without eaves protectors.
it is as though the first course of (eaves) tiles does not exist ffs.
roof tiles have for centuries kept roofs dry without membranes or eaves trays and protectors. it is only when a tile failure, and prolonged water ingress thereafter, does any danger to the eaves timber occur.
.....and, only when felt is used.
