Good DIY weather ...

[Jethro_uk]

So yesterday, I was on roof, finally addressing the chimney flashing issue. Money being tight, and me not being someone who charges for doing things on roofs ("roofer" makes it sound too much like they're not cowboys), the flashband fix should last out a couple of years.

Also replaced the broken tiles.

Scoped out the remedy for the unscrewed ridge tiles (did I say "cowboys" ? )

Then flashbanded the flat roof on the storm porch - the entire seam where the leak must be.

Today just ordered some drip trays for storm porch to make up for the fact they cut the felt too short to go into the gutter. In the meantime, I'm tweaking our outdoor smoking shelter (originally a BBQ shelter) to be rainproof from one side, so we stay nice and dry (if not warm) in winter.

Tomorrow I'll fix the storm porch guttering where a join has been leaking for a while. That's my bad - not sure why, but I fitted it (I fitted all the guttering).

Pleased some of the heats gone. The roof was too hot to touch .... I wonder how much energy was being soaked up ? Certainly enough to warm a few baths.

[Bill Wright]

It's not good weather for roof work. Your fingers and knees can get burnt. And the direct sun is a nuisance. The best weather for roof work is medium temperature, no wind, overcast. Slight fog is good because it makes it hard for the customer to what you're doing.

The worst thing that can happen is that it's really cold but dry, and while you're up there somewhere awkward it rains. The rain freezes hard on every surface and suddenly you can't get down safely.

Bill

[Brian Gaff]

Heat gone? Brian

[Brian Gaff]

And watch it if clambering over a garage roof of the corrugated kind, whatever it is supposed to be made of it is going to be too weak to hold your weight when you most need it to.

Brian

[harry]

Good weather for solar panels. I am generating almost 60Kwh/day. ££££££££££££? ?££££££££££££ £££££££££

[spuorgelgoog]

And that the roof which took your weight as an agile thirteen-year-old will not take the weight of a slightly more rotund thirty-year-old.

I never thought I'd describe myself as rotund.

Owain

[alan_m]

If using ladders it seems it's always easier to get on the roof than trying to get back off it.

[John Rumm]

Having a good 4' of ladder extending above the roof helps greatly. Also having it tied on so you don't need to be as worried about shifting it before you get any weight on it.

[spuorgelgoog]

or as worried about someone else shifting it

Owain

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