Recent content by JayN

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...

Thanks, my local merchant JT Dove seems to stock Manthorpe, they can provide the suitable ridge tiles and end caps too. £45 per 6m kit. Looking forward to a warm April day and a few well-earned ales afterwards.

If you have to flush more than once then there's not enough curry in your diet.

So I currently have the Marley non-half round modern ridge, the one with the angular shape. Marley's kit for this is very expensive so I'll used half round tiles instead so I can buy a more affordable kit. Should I worry about the size of the ridge tiles or are these systems really "universal"...

Thanks, so it seems, I found a video which clearly shows this. I think I'll go with this dry system, requires a bit more praparation time with battens and brackets but the actual laying the tiles seems much faster.

My 1971 Marley Modern ridge tiles and mortar have come to the end of their lives and in the Spring I'll either be bedding new ridge tiles with mortar or doing it the dry way. I'll decide when I see what's under the ridge tiles, what kind of a batten system I have under there. I watched a bunch...

Could be driving horisontal rain, that's what I thought in my case, everything looked cushty so I placed a plastic flabby board to the underlay to direct the water down and above the underlay. 3 years later I found out a ridge tile was cracked under the moss. The whole time water had been...

Seems to be Marley Modern ie The King of the Roof Tiles, so a bit of wonkiness can be tolerated if the aesthetics don't bother you.