I'm making good progress with my roof and need to think about doing the ridge.
The tiles are Marley Wessex, so have a profile to them, and on the old ridge dentil slips (or cut tiles) were mortared into place as per the first picture. I'm sticking with the wessex for the new roof.
In another thread I was discussing the ridge and I decided upon a new mortar ridge with a ridge fixing kit. However, I've then also order the Manthorpe dry ridge kit as recommended by @catlad as this has stainless steel fixings - and I thought might be a darn sight quicker to fix than than a new mortar ridge.
However, it's then occurred to me that with a dry ridge and the profile of the tiles that I'd end up with big gaps between the ridge tile and the roof tiles where the dentil would have been - looks like on some of the diagrams/images that it's exactly is done. Is that right?
It just seems that leaving such a gap is an invite to vermin, insects, etc to get in there or even for the wind to get under them and lift the tiles up.
Am I missing something? Or should I just revert back to the slips and mortar and stop trying to cut corners!?
Thanks,
Andy
Old roof and dentil slips:
The tiles are Marley Wessex, so have a profile to them, and on the old ridge dentil slips (or cut tiles) were mortared into place as per the first picture. I'm sticking with the wessex for the new roof.
In another thread I was discussing the ridge and I decided upon a new mortar ridge with a ridge fixing kit. However, I've then also order the Manthorpe dry ridge kit as recommended by @catlad as this has stainless steel fixings - and I thought might be a darn sight quicker to fix than than a new mortar ridge.
However, it's then occurred to me that with a dry ridge and the profile of the tiles that I'd end up with big gaps between the ridge tile and the roof tiles where the dentil would have been - looks like on some of the diagrams/images that it's exactly is done. Is that right?
It just seems that leaving such a gap is an invite to vermin, insects, etc to get in there or even for the wind to get under them and lift the tiles up.
Am I missing something? Or should I just revert back to the slips and mortar and stop trying to cut corners!?
Thanks,
Andy
Old roof and dentil slips: