Hello all
After seeing my previous, and not old, seamless aluminium guttering leaking at corners and my soffits and fascias rotting at those corners I am having fitted new soffits and fascias and seamless ally again (different roofer), HOWEVER:
This time the roofer has fitted much deeper (ie 2” deeper) fascias and raised the level of the front edge of the overhanging tiles by inserting noggins and fixing deeper tanalised timber fascia back boards ready for upvc fascia capping and the seamless ally to be fitted.
He says he has done this to “slow the flow of the water off the roof” so as to stop the water ingress into the soffits and fascia box , and is also fitting damp proof course material as sarking felt to help (there was felt there before). The problem is that the increased depth of the fascia makes the guttering look “lost” on the expanse of fascia and that the guttering cannot now go round the box ends as they are now at the wrong level.
So:
1 is it correct that the last row of tiles should be at a shallower fall (ie raised up at the leading edge)?
2 is it not necessary for box ends to have their own gutters?
3 is DPC material as good as a fixed rigid drip strip?
Many thanks
PS roofers on site Monday morning after leaving me in eh lurch for weeks, so early replies appreciated!
RADS
After seeing my previous, and not old, seamless aluminium guttering leaking at corners and my soffits and fascias rotting at those corners I am having fitted new soffits and fascias and seamless ally again (different roofer), HOWEVER:
This time the roofer has fitted much deeper (ie 2” deeper) fascias and raised the level of the front edge of the overhanging tiles by inserting noggins and fixing deeper tanalised timber fascia back boards ready for upvc fascia capping and the seamless ally to be fitted.
He says he has done this to “slow the flow of the water off the roof” so as to stop the water ingress into the soffits and fascia box , and is also fitting damp proof course material as sarking felt to help (there was felt there before). The problem is that the increased depth of the fascia makes the guttering look “lost” on the expanse of fascia and that the guttering cannot now go round the box ends as they are now at the wrong level.
So:
1 is it correct that the last row of tiles should be at a shallower fall (ie raised up at the leading edge)?
2 is it not necessary for box ends to have their own gutters?
3 is DPC material as good as a fixed rigid drip strip?
Many thanks
PS roofers on site Monday morning after leaving me in eh lurch for weeks, so early replies appreciated!
RADS