Recent content by hardmetalking

You can install zinc or lead on that pitch but you will get a lot of standing water. 3 degrees is the magic number water droplets lose surface tension and run off occurs. Surface water isn’t a problem but dust and debris will blow onto it and stick, then when the sun dries it out you’re left...

Does anyone have any experience with Lusso stone shower trays? In particular the shower waste. I’ve had it fitted 3 times by 3 different plumbers and it still leaks. Lusso stone say it’s a regular product that they sell in the 100’s but it’s a very poor design. Help needed and cash waiting!

Zinc should last a few hundred years. The problems occur with poor installation usually poor design or build up issues. It always makes me laugh when people say zinc isn't used anymore.... I've been installing zinc everyday for the past 20 years! I'd be happy to quote for either repair or...

Zinc is the answer......

Zinc requires a 3 degree fall not 5.

Zinc

Zinc is the answer....

Depends what you call expensive? Copper is perfect for a curved roof. 1.5m radius is very tight.

I'm a zinc roofer and it would look great in zinc or copper.

This is a bit of a grey area..... Some literature shows this kind of detail but we have always considered it to be weak and vulnerable. Common practise is to cut a chase into the abutment and fold the zinc into it and then back on itself. It's called a birds mouth fold as this is what it...

Let me educate you Ken..... There is evidence that the Romans started installing zinc to roofs. At the turn of the century (1900) the powers that be decided Paris needed to double its population but they had run out of land. The best viable option was to add an extra storey to every building in...

No problem with this configuration and will look bang on trend. The guy above must have been living in a cave for the past 25 years...... I've been installing zinc roofs everyday for the past 17 years and have plenty of work ahead of me.

Your bay could look like this.... VM Quartz zinc by hardmetalking posted 26 Feb 2015 at 4:23 PM

VM Quartz zinc by hardmetalking posted 24 Feb 2013 at 6:52 PM

Zinc, copper or stainless steel