Hooray! A few dry days at last and we finally have our roof on. At last it can start drying out inside...
Felt is laid to increase waterproofing, and then battens for the tiles
(well, apart from rendering, windows, doors, guttering, roof of utility room, and all the internal stuff too!!)
The roof is a 'cut' roof, hand made on site, with purlins to support the rafters. Most roofs these days are made from pre-constructed 'trusses' instead but I like the traditional style still... It leaves more storage space behind that's for sure!
These are reclaimed roof tiles, looking quite similar to the existing ones. All that remains is the ridge tiles and we are done!
(well, apart from rendering, windows, doors, guttering, roof of utility room, and all the internal stuff too!!)
6 comments:
WHOOOHOOO!!1
GO 2013!!!! can't wait for the internal!
Nor can we - getting v exciting now!!!
Ohh, won't be long now!
When you say FELT, do you mean FELT? like for sewing kinda felt? I don't think we use that in the states.
Hmm, felt is special roofing felt, made of waterproof material to prevent any leaks. I think it is just a backup in case water manages to get between the tiles anywhere. Maybe it's unique to the uk - we are quite paranoid about rain and damp!
is it like sarking? that's what we have but that's for the opposite, for fire!
Interesting question. It is commonly called 'sarking felt'... But initial investigations suggest sarking is different!
Wikipedia says:
'Sarking is the use of wood panels, or "sarking boards", under the shingles of a roof to provide support. It is a common term in Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. The shingles or slates are nailed directly to the sarking boards without timber battens, providing a strong, wind-resistant roof.[1] The term can also refer to an additional layer within a roof that insulates or reflects heat, such as a layer of felt, reflective foil, or polystyrene.
In current usage in Australia, sarking refers to a laminated aluminium foil layer (commonly described as rfl, or reflective foil laminate) that is inserted beneath the battens supporting a tile or metal deck roof, acting as additional radiative and convective insulation and providing a condensation barrier'
And jeff Howell, a popular home improvement writer in the UK, reckons sarking felt in the UK serves no real purpose at all!!:
'For the fact is that, once a roof has been tiled or slated, sarking felt serves no real purpose. It was introduced in the 1960s largely to make life easier for roofers.
When retiling an old roof, roofers used to have to work in sections, stripping off and re-covering each small area in a day, so as not to leave the roof exposed.
With the introduction of sarking felt, they were able to strip off a whole roof covering in one day and cover it over with the felt, returning to tile it at their leisure.'
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