Verge Tiles on Hipped roof

[OhGranny]

Hi Everyone
I have an end terrace house and with a tiled hip roof. In the past the verge tiles on the hips have been rep-ointed - but badly and the surveyor said the verge tiles would benefit from reseating and pointing.
Can you access the hip using a roof ladder or will a job like this require scaffolding?

Thanks

 

[noseall]

verges on a hipped roof?

 

[steveroof]

I think he is talking about bonnet hips

 

[steveroof]

I wouldnt fancy taking off a bonnet hip, re-bedding and pointing it off a ladder

 

[^woody^]

A surveyor said there were verge tiles on the hip? Outrageous

Are you sure he was not an engineer or suchlike masquerading as a surveyor?

Anyway, I've seen cat ladders propped on an angle and people who should know better stepping off a ladder at the eaves and just walking up the hip.

Whether you use scaffold just depends on how much you value your life

 

[OhGranny]

Hi Everyone
Seems the surveyor shouldn't give up his day job!!
Don't know the proper terminology but they are the corner tiles on the very edge of the hip where the front and gable sides of the roof meet.
They are corner shaped and they all stack on top of each other bit like overlapping dominoes.
Anyway it seems the general opinion is that it is not easy to access the hip off a roof ladder.
Thought you roofers may have some clever way of getting at the hip without scaffolding.
But having said that I did notice that the Local Authority came to fix someones leaking gutter last week and erected a scaffold for that - can't imagine how much it adds to the cost of a job if you can't even mend a leaking gutter without scaffolding.

Thanks
g.

 

[noseall]

these fellas,

scaffold every time these days.

 

[datarebal]

We maybe be angels , but have not got wings....yet.

 

[noseall]

We maybe be angels , but have not got wings....yet.

 

[SurreyRoofingEstimator]

On a hipped roof the only SAFE way is to erect a scaffold.

Any Bona Fide company would have to erect a scaffold, if anyone got injured doing it off `skyhooks' the consequences could be very expensive.

 

[OhGranny]

Thanks a lot lads!
Noseall they are the ones except square edged not rounded like the ones in the picture.
What are they called so that when I call a roofer I don't sound like a numpty!!!
G.

 

[SurreyRoofingEstimator]

If they are aquare edged (and site really close to each other) they are Arris hips

 

[noseall]

concur with surrey, arris hips:

as opposed to bonnet hips:

 

[Xenon]

We would use one of these for the job, much simpler. Truck mounted with operator for 1/2 a day is cheaper than scaffold.

 

[noseall]

We would use one of these for the job, much simpler. Truck mounted with operator for 1/2 a day is cheaper than scaffold.

" my house has a sloping drive, and i can not get anywhere near the building!"

"my house has a steep frontage so the cherry picker can not get anywhere near the top courses because of the angles"

"it is very windy here today, this cherry picker is dangerous"


blah, blah, blah. wish you'd rung a scaffolder........?