Recent content by JonBolton

The main issue that was causing problems is visible in this picture, I think: Water was getting behind the gutters through that gap. Over time, it had rotted the wooden fascia (which was replaced with a PVC fascia). The felt underneath the first row of tiles was bunched up and old and it was...

Ah! Yes, I know what you mean now, I've seen those installed a while back. So, for example, are you saying that in picture 1 the black holes should have CDRs in them to prevent the tiles from slipping down or from being lifted by strong winds? Makes sense to me. Also, is it common to have...

Excuse my ignorance, what's a CDR?

Thanks Notch! It looks like it was moved to the correct forum (apologies). With regard to the "sealing", I have the same feeling, but I don't work with roofs and so I'm not sure I have good intuitions about what works: what is the point of brushing Acrypol over the soakers? If they are failing...

Hi, thanks for your thoughts! I'm totally fine with paying more for a well-done job, crappy jobs need to be redone and so they are not a good deal in the long term, unless one just wants to house flip and get the next person to deal with the problem. It wasn't classed as an emergency job...

Hi, thanks much for your thoughts. They subcontracted the scaffolding (I think the scaffolding guy charged £350). Some of the other quotes were a bit lower, but what was getting quoted was somewhat different for different companies, so a bit difficult to really compare. There were some red flags...

Hi all, Does the below look like a ripoff or within the range of reasonable? Thanks much for any comments, it's difficult to be able to evaluate what's real and what's BS for somebody who's not in this business. Live and learn. Thanks. -Jon I recently had some work repairs done on the front of...