Recent content by cumbrianroofer

hi guys just a quick question ive recently taken on my first employee a 22 year old lad that was not claiming benefits now i know if he had been i could of claimed a grant towards early costs but im wondering if any of you folks know of any other help i can get towards employing my first...

lol very poorly fitted rooflight by the looks of it it hasnt been fitted square in the roof and although you can use the edz flashing with plain tiles velux reccomend you use the edp flashing which is specifically for plain tiles

awful job take it all down and start again IMO

agree with you joe-90 access platform would do the job depending on what layout is at ground level my preference is scaffold

scaffold all the way saves time and is much safer

check out the fakro website im pretty sure they do a window nonstandard shapes they may be able to help

im sorry but i have to completly disagree step flashing is not as you say the CORRECT way to do it but a different way just as putting lead in a valley or grp valley different way same result there is nothing at all in building regs that says you must put step flashing in brick work i tend to...

The lead work on the first two pics is abysmal i think the leadwork on my chimney is very good actually and tell me where it says in building regs you cannot straight flash a chimney ?

Spot on no dont use mastic use cement like i have :roll: And you have not stated why you would sack me ?

Xenon can you tell me why you would of sacked me or even better put up some examples of your lead work and alistair it was capped in cement with zinc soaker which had all perished i put one bit in rather than steps as its a very exposed area

Lol they did the pointing aswell

i went to a job today to lead a chimney whilst leading my chimney next door asked me to have a look at theirs has their chimney had been leaded by another roofer the first two pics are the other roofers work 2nd two are mine just wondered what your thoughts were on the difference in workmanship...

dont pay cash pay cheque and ask for a written guarantee if he wont comply id tell him your going to contact trading standards i think he has done a pretty shoddy job to be honest

noseall wrote:Rain or indeed water can benefit any cement based work in the summer. So long as the rain is not heavy enough to actually wash the mortar away then it may even improve things. as you will see in daves earlier post they did the ridges earlier in the morning and it is now throwing...

Got to be honest it doesn't look like the tidiest job in the world the ridgeing is all over the place and all the batten joints av been cut on the same spar which is frowned upon and I assume the leadwork on the chimney wasn't to be replaced must say I've seen worse jobs but do agree the lofts a...