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Possible to insert velux without de-slating?

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  • 19-11-2014 7:33pm
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    Jim1000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 107 ✭✭


    hello everybody,

    my roofer has completed the roof but forgot to install the velux where I had it marked.
    Slating is completed. Its a large roof and the velux will go quite low down on it.
    Is there a way of installing it without having to take all the slates off from the top?

    Any help appreciated.

    Thank You

    Jim


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    5T3PH3N
    Registered Users Posts: 542 ✭✭✭5T3PH3N


    Between this and your other thread, it seems like he was a complete cowboy. Did he do anything correctly?


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    Jim1000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 107 ✭✭Jim1000


    no. I had paid him in stages so he got 80% of the agreed price. I didn't discover the leak until it was too late. Still, I offered to pay him all if he would complete the task. I think he is afraid to touch the roof now.
    Anyway, have you installed a velux in a slate roof?


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    650gs
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    Its no big deal to fit the window now you just remove what slates are in the way not a big job at all


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    dodzy
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    Jim1000 wrote: »
    hello everybody,

    my roofer has completed the roof but forgot to install the velux where I had it marked.
    Slating is completed. Its a large roof and the velux will go quite low down on it.
    Is there a way of installing it without having to take all the slates off from the top?

    Any help appreciated.

    Thank You

    Jim

    A roofer....forgets to install a velux ? Thats' s feckin priceless. He doesn't want to touch it because he's incompetent. Keep the 20% in your pocket, run him, and then source a proper guy to fit the velux.


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    jamesd
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    Is it a big job to add one into a roof ? Would like one in my garage roof.


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    Tokyo
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    jamesd wrote: »
    Is it a big job to add one into a roof ? Would like one in my garage roof.

    Not particularly - a half day to a day's work for a competent DIYer (not including tidying up the interior). Pretty sure there are installation videos up on the velux website or in youtube if you want to get a feel fro what's involved.


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    jamesd
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    mike_ie wrote: »
    Not particularly - a half day to a day's work for a competent DIYer (not including tidying up the interior). Pretty sure there are installation videos up on the velux website or in youtube if you want to get a feel fro what's involved.

    Thanks Mike.


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    Jim1000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 107 ✭✭Jim1000


    lads,

    thanks for the replies.

    My issue is I suppose how do I remove the slates at the start as they are nailed under the top tile? And then how do I re-slate as the slates already there are nailed?

    Any tips would be very much appreciated.


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    650gs
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭650gs


    You need a ripper for the slates http://www.roofingsuperstore.co.uk/product/tools-1/slate-hammers-rippers/roofers-slate-ripper-forged-pro.html
    As sair before not a big job for any competent DIY'er but on that note you dont seem to know much about this and slates are not like roof tiles that have a run off channel for rain water.
    you will need to cut some slates and if you don't get this 100% you have leaks for ever, I think for the sake of a days pay get in someone who knows what there doing


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