Hi all
Need some help and advice with the roof of my 1907 farmhouse. Bought the house last August and have a slate roof that buts up to keystones on the main part of the house. Also have a gable end extension that also has a slate roof.
So, have the following problems:
1. On the main house, the area where the slate but up to the keystones has been 'sealed' with a cement fillett. The cement has not parted from the slates and the stone and is pretty easy to pull away. I've replaced the cement on 2 of the 4 edges. But after reading some sites today, it looks like cement filletts aren't a good option and that I should be going for lead soakers etc. Only issue is that the total length of the 4 edges between tiles and keystone is about 20 metres. So, feels like the lead option might be expensive. I think that I'd also need to cut into the keystone to provide an anchor for the lead that sits atop the soaker.
2. On the extension, the slates at the gable end (of the extension, not the main house) don't currently have any dry or wet verge protection. I'm not quite sure what to do wth these slates, since the roof structure beneath them seems quite complicated (to me anyway).
What I have is a gable end wall made of two different materials. I have a six feet wide original stone wall that's about 15 inches thick on the right hand side (facing) of the gable end. The rest of the wall is brick and is lined up to be flush on the inside, so is recessed on the outside from the thicker stone wall. (The wall was originally all stone, but fire damage resulted in part of it being pulled down and replaced by brick.)
On the outside of the wall, I have a rafter that runs along the top of the stone wall to the apex of the roof. This rafter is flush with the outside of the stone wall, but has a gap between it and the recessed brick wall. On top of the rafter, I can see the sarking boards that sit under the tiles. The tiles, sarking and rafter are all flush and there has histrorically been a fascia board that has been screwed into the rafter, but which has sat below the sarking and tiles. So, essentially the sarking and tiles have been exposed without any verge protection.
So, if yo're still with me, it would be good to get advice on:
1. Whether I should bite the bullet with the lead soakers etc or if replacing the cement will do, even for a few years.
2. What I do with the unprotected verge.
Thanks in advance.
Brian
Need some help and advice with the roof of my 1907 farmhouse. Bought the house last August and have a slate roof that buts up to keystones on the main part of the house. Also have a gable end extension that also has a slate roof.
So, have the following problems:
1. On the main house, the area where the slate but up to the keystones has been 'sealed' with a cement fillett. The cement has not parted from the slates and the stone and is pretty easy to pull away. I've replaced the cement on 2 of the 4 edges. But after reading some sites today, it looks like cement filletts aren't a good option and that I should be going for lead soakers etc. Only issue is that the total length of the 4 edges between tiles and keystone is about 20 metres. So, feels like the lead option might be expensive. I think that I'd also need to cut into the keystone to provide an anchor for the lead that sits atop the soaker.
2. On the extension, the slates at the gable end (of the extension, not the main house) don't currently have any dry or wet verge protection. I'm not quite sure what to do wth these slates, since the roof structure beneath them seems quite complicated (to me anyway).
What I have is a gable end wall made of two different materials. I have a six feet wide original stone wall that's about 15 inches thick on the right hand side (facing) of the gable end. The rest of the wall is brick and is lined up to be flush on the inside, so is recessed on the outside from the thicker stone wall. (The wall was originally all stone, but fire damage resulted in part of it being pulled down and replaced by brick.)
On the outside of the wall, I have a rafter that runs along the top of the stone wall to the apex of the roof. This rafter is flush with the outside of the stone wall, but has a gap between it and the recessed brick wall. On top of the rafter, I can see the sarking boards that sit under the tiles. The tiles, sarking and rafter are all flush and there has histrorically been a fascia board that has been screwed into the rafter, but which has sat below the sarking and tiles. So, essentially the sarking and tiles have been exposed without any verge protection.
So, if yo're still with me, it would be good to get advice on:
1. Whether I should bite the bullet with the lead soakers etc or if replacing the cement will do, even for a few years.
2. What I do with the unprotected verge.
Thanks in advance.
Brian
