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In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof
felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave |
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In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Pent or apex roof? e.g. flat sloping or pointy? -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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Dave wrote:
In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave you can do it either way, adhesive or nails. Or you can even use wafer head screws. Its a very simple job, not sure what there is to say about it. I'd just avoid cheapie felts, false economy. NT |
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"Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. |
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writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. regards -- Tim Lamb |
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Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , BigWallop writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. regards "strong edge/drip" - its called a welted drip and if you are using the green mineralised felt, it is sensible to lightly heat this with a blow torch on the actual 'bend' to avoid cracking during the 'turn-over' operation. |
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The Medway Handyman wrote:
Dave wrote: In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Pent or apex roof? e.g. flat sloping or pointy? Apex. Dave |
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BigWallop wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. Many thanks for all that detail, I feel more confident about doing it now. I was thinking that the adhesive would have to be painted all over where the felt was to sit. Dave |
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Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , BigWallop writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. Thanks for the additional info. Dave |
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Tim Lamb wrote: In message , BigWallop writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. regards "strong edge/drip" - its called a welted drip and if you are using the green mineralised felt, it is sensible to lightly heat this with a blow torch on the actual 'bend' to avoid cracking during the 'turn-over' operation. That was something I forgot to ask, the ending in this cold weather. Dave |
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On 22 Nov, 19:52, Dave wrote:
Tim Lamb wrote: In message , BigWallop writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. *Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. *Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. *Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. *Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. *Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. *All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, *up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. Thanks for the additional info. Dave Dave I'm not accusing those who have replied of not having done a re- felting job in winter, but having done a similar repair situation some years ago and had to work all day and well into dark (7pm on a cold winter's night !!), I would strongly recommend that you consider avoiding using felt. You are going to be faced with trying to apply an adhesive that is very temperature sensitive in terms of its capacity to flow and hence be painted on, and will need to be warmed considerably to be useable. You will find that if you go to any of the Sheds you can get sheets of Onduline. The accumulative price is not going to be that much different from using felt properly, and the effort to install it is minimal which is critical at this time of year. If you haven't done felting before, avoid it under these circumstances and go with the corrugated material - not much different in price and so much easier to put on. I've just done a 5m x 3m roof with it and it took a short afternoon. Rob |
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wrote: Dave wrote: In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave you can do it either way, adhesive or nails. Or you can even use wafer head screws. Its a very simple job, not sure what there is to say about it. I'd just avoid cheapie felts, false economy. Noted. The felt will be mid range of what the BS stocks. Is the adhesive a grab type, or will it allow slip like wall paper paste? Dave its a gloop, very slow drying, and impossible to clean off whatever you get it on. And you will. Can be applied by brush or scraper. And dont take the whole gallon up there, put some in a marge tub etc, that way the disaster is smaller NT |
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On 22 Nov, 19:52, Dave wrote: Tim Lamb wrote: In message , BigWallop writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. �Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. �Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. �Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. �Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. �Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. �All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, �up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. Thanks for the additional info. Dave Dave I'm not accusing those who have replied of not having done a re- felting job in winter, but having done a similar repair situation some years ago and had to work all day and well into dark (7pm on a cold winter's night !!), I would strongly recommend that you consider avoiding using felt. You are going to be faced with trying to apply an adhesive that is very temperature sensitive in terms of its capacity to flow and hence be painted on, and will need to be warmed considerably to be useable. You will find that if you go to any of the Sheds you can get sheets of Onduline. The accumulative price is not going to be that much different from using felt properly, and the effort to install it is minimal which is critical at this time of year. If you haven't done felting before, avoid it under these circumstances and go with the corrugated material - not much different in price and so much easier to put on. I've just done a 5m x 3m roof with it and it took a short afternoon. Rob If the gloop goes stiff, it can be thinned with a lttle paraffin. Ultimately it can just be wiped on solid if necessary, just press down hard to stick. Go for a modern felt, trad felts stiffen right up in cold weather. NT |
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:39:14 +0000, Dave wrote:
My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Not bothered with glue on our 8x6 shed roof, just used clout nails. The winds here get strong enough to blow the shed away, which has happened twice. Once the roof took off in it's entirety and landed 25 yards down wind, second time the entire shed was rolled over, it was empty though. Nails are about every 1 1/2" on exposed edges and every 6" or so on non-exposed ones. There are also a couple of wood strips running up/down the pitch to reduce the free area of felt that can move in the wind. A downside with sticking the flet down is that should it become damaged again it's not going to be particulary easy to clean up the bits that are stuck down. Nails can be pulled and reused... -- Cheers Dave. |
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In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Coming late to this, but I'll add my vote for gloop. Gloop and nails. Loads of gloop. Don't just gloop round the edges, but paint it all over, stick felt down, nail edge with clout nails for good measure. Did exactly this for the landlord a couple of years ago and the shed's kept it's felt. Why that way? Well, if you don't stick it down all over, if a rip develops, the wind gets under it and bye bye felt. Beware though, the gloop can find it's way past the planks and drip inside the shed. Cheers Tim |
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wrote in message ... Dave wrote: wrote: Dave wrote: In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave you can do it either way, adhesive or nails. Or you can even use wafer head screws. Its a very simple job, not sure what there is to say about it. I'd just avoid cheapie felts, false economy. Noted. The felt will be mid range of what the BS stocks. Is the adhesive a grab type, or will it allow slip like wall paper paste? Dave its a gloop, very slow drying, and impossible to clean off whatever you get it on. And you will. Can be applied by brush or scraper. And dont take the whole gallon up there, put some in a marge tub etc, that way the disaster is smaller NT Very sound advice. You sometimes forget the little bits of advice that really matter in doing this type of project. |
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"Cash" wrote in message ... Tim Lamb wrote: In message , BigWallop writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. regards "strong edge/drip" - its called a welted drip and if you are using the green mineralised felt, it is sensible to lightly heat this with a blow torch on the actual 'bend' to avoid cracking during the 'turn-over' operation. A Welted Edge. That's it. I was going to call it a Welp. :-) Isn't it luck a red face only lasts for a second. lol |
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Dave I'm not accusing those who have replied of not having done a re- felting job in winter, but having done a similar repair situation some years ago and had to work all day and well into dark (7pm on a cold winter's night !!), I would strongly recommend that you consider avoiding using felt. You are going to be faced with trying to apply an adhesive that is very temperature sensitive in terms of its capacity to flow and hence be painted on, and will need to be warmed considerably to be useable. You will find that if you go to any of the Sheds you can get sheets of Onduline. The accumulative price is not going to be that much different from using felt properly, and the effort to install it is minimal which is critical at this time of year. If you haven't done felting before, avoid it under these circumstances and go with the corrugated material - not much different in price and so much easier to put on. I've just done a 5m x 3m roof with it and it took a short afternoon. That looks like a very good alternative. Thanks for that, I'll take a look at it in the next few days. Dave |
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In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job If you can get access to a *large* blowtorch (we are talking something with 30mm+ wide nozzle here) then I would be tempted to get a roll of torch on felt instead. Especially given the weather. Basically you cut the felt as usual, but instead of titting about orible black gloop, you just play the torch over it to melt the back, and unroll it onto the roof, heating as you go. You will be able to do a decent sized shed roof in about an hour that way, and keep warm into the process. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Dave wrote: In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job If you can get access to a *large* blowtorch (we are talking something with 30mm+ wide nozzle here) then I would be tempted to get a roll of torch on felt instead. Especially given the weather. Basically you cut the felt as usual, but instead of titting about orible black gloop, you just play the torch over it to melt the back, and unroll it onto the roof, heating as you go. You will be able to do a decent sized shed roof in about an hour that way, and keep warm into the process. Yup. The fire brigade carry blankets to wrap you in :-) -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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John Rumm wrote: Dave wrote: In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job If you can get access to a *large* blowtorch (we are talking something with 30mm+ wide nozzle here) then I would be tempted to get a roll of torch on felt instead. Especially given the weather. Basically you cut the felt as usual, but instead of titting about orible black gloop, you just play the torch over it to melt the back, and unroll it onto the roof, heating as you go. You will be able to do a decent sized shed roof in about an hour that way, and keep warm into the process. Yup. The fire brigade carry blankets to wrap you in :-) Having now done a few roofs with torch on, I don't think I would go back glue... as a process it is so much quicker and easier, and the results much more like a hot tar and felt solution. Some of the 4mm SBS rubberised felts are also seriously tough - much better quality than traditional felt. The process is safe enough it you take obvious precautions when close existing parts of buildings. Most of the time you are just heating the back of the roll of felt, with a little flame over spill onto the roof to prewarm it and drive off any moisture. Even with a timber roof, if you catch it enough to burn, it will extinguish as you place the felt on it. I usually have some water handy and a damp cloth/towel just in case of fire or burn (you don't want to get hot rubberised tar on your skin!). Good leather gloves are a must, and a metal trowel are handy for holding and heating tricky bits. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , BigWallop writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. regards Not having been able to look at the lee ward side today to see how the original was done, I suspect that it was just overlapped to the down side and left a bit longer than the batten that held it in place. Would this do the job, considering the weather is so cold? Or I could leave it long, hope the wind left it that way and roll it in spring. Dave |
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"Dave" wrote in message ... Tim Lamb wrote: In message , BigWallop writes "Dave" wrote in message ... In the winds last week, our little wooden shed had part of its roof felting blown off. My local building suppliers have mentioned using felt adhesive. Is this good advice for some one who has never done this sort of thing before? Plus, any tips on doing the job Dave Start at the eaves and work up to the top. Apply felt adhesive, or liquid felt, liberally all over the roof. Apply the first row of felt over the eaves. Leave a few inches over the edges to form tucks so the rain drips away from the walls of the shed. Leave a couple of inches on overlaps so the water runs onto and not under the previous row of felt. Use large head felt (roofing) nails every 6 or so inches along all the edges, and try to use liquid felt or felt adhesive under and on top of all joints. Apply liquid felt with an old paint brush. All mineral crumbs can be collected to cover the nail heads and camouflage them. The top ridge felt covering should be stuck with felt adhesive and then nailed to make it stronger and last longer. All above and.... Use mineralised felt and fit thin battens, 18" apart, up and down the slope to stop wind lift. By tucks, I think BW meant to say double the felt back under itself to form a strong edge/drip. regards Not having been able to look at the lee ward side today to see how the original was done, I suspect that it was just overlapped to the down side and left a bit longer than the batten that held it in place. Would this do the job, considering the weather is so cold? Or I could leave it long, hope the wind left it that way and roll it in spring. Dave Try bending the felt cold to see how much radius it will allow. Leave that much over and bend it round to get a drip form. In the warmer weather you can tidy it up a bit more. Even in these cold conditions, the felt should bend through quite a tight radius without cracking. |
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writes Not having been able to look at the lee ward side today to see how the original was done, I suspect that it was just overlapped to the down side and left a bit longer than the batten that held it in place. Would this do the job, considering the weather is so cold? Or I could leave it long, hope the wind left it that way and roll it in spring. Dave Try bending the felt cold to see how much radius it will allow. Leave that much over and bend it round to get a drip form. In the warmer weather you can tidy it up a bit more. Even in these cold conditions, the felt should bend through quite a tight radius without cracking. I have a B&D hot air paint stripper which has little effect on paint but works wonders on bending plastics and unfreezing pipes. Try bending an offcut and see how it goes. Wait till she is out and borrow the hair drier:-) regards -- Tim Lamb |
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re felting a shed roof
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In message , BigWallop writes Not having been able to look at the lee ward side today to see how the original was done, I suspect that it was just overlapped to the down side and left a bit longer than the batten that held it in place. Would this do the job, considering the weather is so cold? Or I could leave it long, hope the wind left it that way and roll it in spring. Dave Try bending the felt cold to see how much radius it will allow. Leave that much over and bend it round to get a drip form. In the warmer weather you can tidy it up a bit more. Even in these cold conditions, the felt should bend through quite a tight radius without cracking. To answer both of you. Yes, that went through my mind as I have to buy far more felt than I will use. I have a B&D hot air paint stripper which has little effect on paint but works wonders on bending plastics and unfreezing pipes. Try bending an offcut and see how it goes. Wait till she is out and borrow the hair drier:-) Paint stripper gets hotter than that. Any idea how much heat felt can take? I wont be doing the job till next year anyway, I'm not well enough to be outside all the time it will take. Dave |
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In message , Dave
writes I have a B&D hot air paint stripper which has little effect on paint but works wonders on bending plastics and unfreezing pipes. Try bending an offcut and see how it goes. Wait till she is out and borrow the hair drier:-) Paint stripper gets hotter than that. Any idea how much heat felt can take? I wont be doing the job till next year anyway, I'm not well enough to be outside all the time it will take. Very much depends on the felt you are using. As others have said, some are designed to have the contact side *melted* by contact with a large direct flame from a torch. Simply bending should not need much more than warm. You will have to experiment. Working off the ground, applying heat to a narrow but long strip really needs a hand portable heat source. I have not tried but a plumbers soldering torch with a diffuse flame, kept moving, might do. regards -- Tim Lamb |
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re felting a shed roof
Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Dave writes I have a B&D hot air paint stripper which has little effect on paint but works wonders on bending plastics and unfreezing pipes. Try bending an offcut and see how it goes. Wait till she is out and borrow the hair drier:-) Paint stripper gets hotter than that. Any idea how much heat felt can take? I wont be doing the job till next year anyway, I'm not well enough to be outside all the time it will take. Very much depends on the felt you are using. As others have said, some are designed to have the contact side *melted* by contact with a large direct flame from a torch. Simply bending should not need much more than warm. You will have to experiment. Working off the ground, applying heat to a narrow but long strip really needs a hand portable heat source. I have not tried but a plumbers soldering torch with a diffuse flame, kept moving, might do. If you want to make a "drip" easily, they normally suggest a strip of hardboard or 3mm ply - nail through it, through some felt (underside facing out) into the side of the roof, then lift the felt up and over it so that it defines a nice neat edge. ______________ ############|I| ############|I| \| Where I is the ply/hardboard -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Dave writes I have a B&D hot air paint stripper which has little effect on paint but works wonders on bending plastics and unfreezing pipes. Try bending an offcut and see how it goes. Wait till she is out and borrow the hair drier:-) Paint stripper gets hotter than that. Any idea how much heat felt can take? I wont be doing the job till next year anyway, I'm not well enough to be outside all the time it will take. Very much depends on the felt you are using. As others have said, some are designed to have the contact side *melted* by contact with a large direct flame from a torch. Simply bending should not need much more than warm. You will have to experiment. Working off the ground, applying heat to a narrow but long strip really needs a hand portable heat source. I have not tried but a plumbers soldering torch with a diffuse flame, kept moving, might do. regards OK thanks for that, but as I have said earlier, I will not be doing the job until I can keep warm and not cough while I am doing it. Dave |
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John Rumm wrote:
If you want to make a "drip" easily, they normally suggest a strip of hardboard or 3mm ply - nail through it, through some felt (underside facing out) into the side of the roof, then lift the felt up and over it so that it defines a nice neat edge. I'll re read that when I am feeling a bit better. My chest is getting me down again. This has been going on for over 14 months now, hence the lack of the drill grinding guide. Dave |
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