Guttering - running felt into guttering

[steveharr]

I am about to replace the guttering on the back of my house.

I was told by a friend that when he had his facias and guttering replaced the contractor trimmed back the damaged roof felt and affixed a damp proof course to the felt and had that overlap into the guttering.

can someone tell me what they might of used to stick/attach the felt and the damp proof course together?

 

[kevin34]

hello it depends on your roof if you need to do anything with the underlay felt at all.

most houses this aint a problem at all, it realy depends on how far your slates overhang to your guttering.

So first stick your new guttering on before doing any felt then take a look up, if you see a gap ie light showing between the slate and the gutterring then you need to extend your felt.

this is done by cutting a strip/s 6 inches usually in width and raising the tiles/slates and tucking the felt under, usually the weight of the slates/tiles pushing down on the felt is enought to hold it into place nice and tight, the felt should only sit a max of quarter of the way into the gutterring NEVER MORE THAN HALF WAY. if the slates/tiles wont hold the felt in place to good then a few appropiatly placed felt nails hammered in will do the trick.

But can tell ya now out of a 100 houses estimate only 5 would need something done to the felt, so most likely yours will be fine.

you dont need damp course membrane ps: damp only rises a metre high, anything else is remedial damp caused by a leak or something.anything would do that allows the water to run from the slate to the gutterring but underlay felt is the correct material.