Ridge repair requires- should I install a dry ridge system

[mrbg07546]

our ridge needs repairing due to cracked mortar. Is it best I install a dry ridge system??? I have a 1960s semi

 

[^woody^]

It depends how good you are at fitting a wet system.

 

[mrbg07546]

I'm using a good roofer

 

[^woody^]

Current thinking is that mortar alone is not sufficient. Your roofer should be working to BS 5534, and so can either fit a dry ridge, or wet ridge with mechanical fixings.

Sometimes, a dry ridge is difficult to get flat on an old roof with uneven tiles. Other times the rofer cant even get a wet ridge flat

 

[datarebal]

Go wet, with fixings.

 

[Alastairreid]

As data.

https://www.marleyeternit.co.uk/Roo...ixings/Mortar-Bedded-Security-Ridge-Pack.aspx

 

[mrbg07546]

So is the point of mortar just for athetetica

 

[^woody^]

To keep the tiles together. Or apart. Depends on your point of view