why do the English not use sarking ? ....
sarking
Jun 22, 2019
Last reply: 7 years ago
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They do.
Some older houses may not have it but more modern ones certainly do. All the houses we own/have owned have sarking felt.
Huh! Now try and get your builder to use it! They have latched on to porous membrane in the firm belief that roof ventilation is no longer necessary. Also try and get them to use the grade required for your area wind prediction and double sided tape for laps:-(
The English use sarking 'felt' unlike the Scots who, certainly on older properties, use(d) sarking boards.
My house has sarking boards.
Do you mean the felt inside the tiles? Never been any in this house. Brian
Because they use iron-ing.
Generally to help support the weight of snow. More likely in the north than south.
Although the jocks quite often say sarking when they mean under boarding.
Because it's been around rather longer than roofing felt.
Surely double sided tape will dry out and fail within a short time, especially in a roof environment?
I think building control have tied their hands on that matter.
If you missed it, todays car restoration job on Quest was a nice Rover P5 coupe, given a recon power steering pump (apparently the owners handbook said don't hold on full lock for more then 30 seconds or it will overheat the fluid).
For some reason they had stainless steel exhaust manifolds made up to replace the oem cast-iron ones, which seems like a waste of £1600.
because we use more modern barriers than sarking felt.
I have a big roll of it somewhere that the builders left in the loft.
Building regs require roof vents so they will fit them.
cast iron exhaust? mild steel more likely
No, I'm sure the one that does the dirty work (Edd) said it was cast-iron. And it looked like a casting too. Very awkward shape.
Modern rooves will have soffit vents and ridge venmts
So there is no need for permeawble sarking
But of course a porous membrane DOES ventilate
Sarking is ther to reduce wind speed and stop tiles being sucked off
Also try and get them to use the
Not manifolds
Ah - I misread.
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