Recent content by JayN

Yes, £1.92 for Marley moderns, but I was swapping so many of them, the roof looks like a right mess with the old and new mixed. It's like crazy paving. I'll continue next summer, fed up for now, so I used OB1 and did end up changing for new ones until I ran out tiles. £4-5 delivery in the north...

I'll revise my earlier answer, having swapped quite a few Marley Moderns on Friday. 30mil thick block of timber works best, one on the tile avove to the right, lift that, timber underneath, then lift the one immediately to the left of the of one you want to remove. Now you canf lift the tile...

I have a few Marley Modern tiles where the small lower corner is cracked and the piece gone. If the corner piece is there I've been using OB1 to glue it on, the damage being cosmetic which won't cause a leak. Would it be possible to shape and mold flexim putty to make a new small corner? Or is...

I use a flat angled metal bar to lift the marley moderns then I place some 40mil thick timber under them in strategic places and wiggle the one I want to remove out. The grooves sometimes make it a bit hard, or there might be those clips with nails to keep them in place but they are always very...

In my case, Marley Moderns from 1970, the moss seems to eat the concrete which becomes very crumbly under the moss which is always on the seams. My neighbour says it's because the moss gets frozen in the winter, thaws and freezes constantly, damaging the tile.

Thanks, that puts my mind at ease. That job is fairly difficult for a 60+ year old man who is gingerly stepping on old and brittle Marley Modern tiles from 1970. I was easily able just to lift the old ridge tiles off the mortar bed. I decided against the brackets and screwed the battens on the...

During a few sunny days I dismantled the old Marley Modern angular ridge and replaced it with the new same ridge tiles. Please look at the photos of the plastic union/clips attached. It's not one of those ratchet systems where you place the two tiles in place then push the ratchets in, in...

But I'm not of the roofing world, just a DIYer who only pays someone else if the boiler or radiators need work. Might not look 100% professional or mint, but I won't have to curse that roofer who didn't give a damn or had too low an IQ to understand how water always tries to find the easiest way.

I suspect you're right, I haven't seen the kit yet myself, but someone was very suspicious earlier in an earlier post.

The ridge tiles are bedded in and pointed, where's the air going in?

In my case the ventilation is plentiful via other ways than the ridge area.

I will but someone was worried about it leaking.

Saw some older threads about this. If you're not worried about ventilation like I'm not, I'm doing the dry system this Spring and am replacing an air tight mortar ridge, so there was no ventilation through the ridge in the first place. The unions might not be watertight and the membrane might...

Suddenly "kidnapping" becomes something someone is not supposed to do, LOL. I guess it all depends on who is doing it.

These are my granddad's puny legs in the early 80's in Bramley, Johannesburg. We used to wear this kind of a slippers in the 70's and 80's, they were quite popular in SA. They are not shoellies or vellies. I'm trying to identify them, perhaps someone is still manufacturing them. Google or its AI...