Hi all
Try as I might to get a roofer to even come out to quote for a small job I've decided I'm gonna have to do it myself... I guess its August and everyone's on holiday...
We have a dodgy down pipe which spews tons of water over our porch roof so fast that it misses the gutter completely. Its badly positioned and needs moving (but as I say I can't get anyone to quote). The water has damaged the verge on the porch roof, its all cracked. But only underneath 1 tile, as the rest of the porch roof adjoins a wall and is therefore leaded, there is no verge.
I'm going to take the tile off myself (it has a lead cover on it so I'm nervous about moving it) knock out the old mortar bed (just for this one tile... I can't do the whole line as they're covered in lead) rebed the tile and then re point the verge. Its currently all done as one - it looks like the bed and verge were done at same time, no join etc....
Does this sound reasonable? I assume all the remaining tiles will also be sitting on a bed of mortar? If so, how far shall I chop out the old mortar of the problem tile? We currently don't seem to have any leak issues and I'd hate to make it worse!!!
Cheers
Try as I might to get a roofer to even come out to quote for a small job I've decided I'm gonna have to do it myself... I guess its August and everyone's on holiday...
We have a dodgy down pipe which spews tons of water over our porch roof so fast that it misses the gutter completely. Its badly positioned and needs moving (but as I say I can't get anyone to quote). The water has damaged the verge on the porch roof, its all cracked. But only underneath 1 tile, as the rest of the porch roof adjoins a wall and is therefore leaded, there is no verge.
I'm going to take the tile off myself (it has a lead cover on it so I'm nervous about moving it) knock out the old mortar bed (just for this one tile... I can't do the whole line as they're covered in lead) rebed the tile and then re point the verge. Its currently all done as one - it looks like the bed and verge were done at same time, no join etc....
Does this sound reasonable? I assume all the remaining tiles will also be sitting on a bed of mortar? If so, how far shall I chop out the old mortar of the problem tile? We currently don't seem to have any leak issues and I'd hate to make it worse!!!
Cheers
