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That's brilliant noseall, thank you for the drawing! Our porch will be a lean to hip roof, Would I still need that green common rafter against the wall? Yeh using bonnets not the arris ones, I'm going with 38 degrees coz that's what the house is :)

Thank you for that Steve, and thanks for your comment on bedding hip tiles, very helpful mate

Evening all, I'll try make this my last post for now as I've asked a lot of questions this weekend :) We're planning on building a porch with a hipped roof. The porch will be 1200 out and 3000 across. We shall be using plain tiles and was wondering should I pitch it at 35 degrees or should...

Evening all, I'll try make this my last post for now as I've asked a lot of questions this weekend :) We're planning on building a porch with a hipped roof. The porch will be 1200 out and 3000 across. We shall be using plain tiles and was wondering should I pitch it at 35 degrees or should I...

Evening all, I'll try make this my last post for now as I've asked a lot of questions this weekend :) We're planning on building a porch with a hipped roof. The porch will be 1200 out and 3000 across. We shall be using plain tiles and was wondering should I pitch it at 35 degrees or should I...

Evening all, I'll try make this my last post for now as I've asked a lot of questions this weekend :) We're planning on building a porch with a hipped roof. The porch will be 1200 out and 3000 across. We shall be using plain tiles and was wondering should I pitch it at 35 degrees or should...

Great noseall cheers. I'll use 3:1 the darker the better. I'm not a fan of using die especially on an old propery, might look abit odd

Noseall that's great! Thank you mate.. When I had a read online everyone uses a 3:1 mix ratio, but do you think 4:1 will be better? I'll also add plasticiser to the water like you said Cheers noseall

Evening all, A friend of mine up the road has an old listed building and we want to re-bed or maybe re-point the bonnet hip tiles. What would last longer, re bedding or re pointing? What's the best sand and cement mix to use? Do I need to add fed mix or waterproofer? whats the best brand...

OK Gary thanks! Thanks for replying so quick lol i sometimes have to wait ages for a reply when i ask questions here and there! appreciate it

Hi Gary thanks for that. I thought the pitch looked lower then 20degrees, Velux can go lower then 20 degrees, you just have to change the type of flashing. And did you use 6x2 timbers or 8x2 Thank you Gary I appreciate the response :)

Evening all. Sorry but I have another question, for example when I cut my rafters , let's say 6x2, I always cut 1/3 of the seat cut, so roughly 50mm, My question is birdmouthing the top of the rafter, is it common practise to take out 50mm like the bottom seat cut or just take out 1 inch...

That's great noseall thank you

Evening all, Would like to know something thats bothered me for a while and I can't find the answer anywhere. When pitching a roof with rafters why do some chippies keep the top plumb cut lower say 30ish mm and other chippies put the plumb cut flush with the top of the ridge board? Proberly...

Cheers noseall, the reason I always post the same question is because sometimes I see extensions that go out 3 meters and the roof is like 3 courses below to finished tile! Think to myself how on earth did they get 17.5 degrees

Hi noseall, thanks for replying. When you say find a pitch I'm happy with, what do you mean? If I was using 49s smooth for example, should I just pitch my roof at 17.5, the minimum pitch.. I would of thought higher the pitch the better.

Hi noseall. The brickie finished today and I pitched up a 6x2 rafter with a 2 inch birdmouth and as luck would have it the top of the rafter was 150mm down from the sill, minus tile battern and upstand. For some reason noseall I thought I wouldn't have to go right under the sill because...

Morning all. Currently building an extension and I'm nearly at wall plate height. The majority of extensions I do go out 3 meters but this one is only 2500mm out from the house. I'm using redlans 49s smooth. Min pitch 17.5. My question is, should I pitch the roof at 17.5 Or raise...

Hi noseall thanks for replying. Yes I understand what you mean and glad you understood what I meant ha. Find it hard to explain sometimes when typing. I'm going to wait till the brickie is up to wall plate height and like you said cut a rafter at 17.5 and offer it up. What I'm trying...

Evening everyone. Have a small extension coming up and need a little advise on the roof. Most of the extensions go out about 3 meters and I tend to measure down about 150mm from the sill to the top of the wall plate. This extension however is only going out about 2200mm. I'm going to...