My shed desperately needs refelting.
I have been told to get some felt and glue it on, whereas at the moment it
is only nailed on using galvanised nails (manufacturers did this).
What is a reasonable felt to use and is there any advantage in gluing it on
as opposed to nailing, apart from it is easier to remove ?

I saw a website that said just glue any overlaps by about 2".

On Jul 8, 11:58*am, "the_constructor"
wrote:
My shed desperately needs refelting.
I have been told to get some felt and glue it on, whereas at the moment it
is only nailed on using galvanised nails (manufacturers did this).
What is a reasonable felt to use and is there any advantage in gluing it on
as opposed to nailing, apart from it is easier to remove ?

I saw a website that said just glue any overlaps by about 2".

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Roofing_felt


NT

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:58:02 +0100, the_constructor wrote:

What is a reasonable felt to use and is there any advantage in gluing it
on as opposed to nailing, apart from it is easier to remove ?

I've used bog standard "shed roof felt" on our shed nailed with
clouts every couple of inches along the exposed edges and every 6
inches undner the 6" or so overlap. It survives our weather at 1400'
and exposed. Most of the stones have now come off but it's still
water tight. The last time I refelted it was after this:

http://www.howhill.com/weather/view....2005&m=04&d=28

2005 so just over 6 years ago. Previous to that was Dec '99 when the
whole roof got ripped off and landed across the otherside of the road
behind the wall in the photo above. Hum that was 6 years before 2005,
must be due...

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Cheers
Dave.