Dry Verge Caps recommendation and advice.

Comer1

I have just spent the past two days replacing the timber behind the fascia and bottom couple of metres of my rafters as they are rotten. The house is only 20 years old so I was a bit surprised to see just how bad they are. The water is getting in through the mortar on the tiles so rather than get them repointed, I was considering using a dry verge system.

I assume I would have to remove tiles into the second rafter, cut back the batten to the centre of that rafter and replace with the batten extending beyond the outside rafter. I would also have to remove the existing mortar from the tiles. What kind of problems am I likely to have doing this? Am I liable to end up with a few broken tiles removing the mortar or will it come off easily enough.

Can anyone recommend a system and any other advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks

CJhaughey

I have Flexim on my concrete tile ridge capping, its very easy to apply and is lightweight and flexible. Much easier than using cement based mortar.
Is there any ventilation under your eaves? that could be part of the problem.
Wood that gets wet and stays wet will rot but if there is ventilation it should dry out.

Comer1

CJhaughey wrote: »

I have Flexim on my concrete tile ridge capping, its very easy to apply and is lightweight and flexible. Much easier than using cement based mortar.
Is there any ventilation under your eaves? that could be part of the problem.
Wood that gets wet and stays wet will rot but if there is ventilation it should dry out.

Flexim is an option I've considered but if I have to remove the tiles and clean them of any mortar to use Flexim, I'm wondering if I'd be better off doing a lifetime job like the dry verge system. Although it would be a lot more expensive I suppose.

There is plenty of ventilation for the rafters but the 7x1 between the rafter and the fascia is right up to the mortar bedding with no option for ventilation. I'm going to put in extra ventilation at the ends of the rafters where they have rotted.

CJhaughey

Have you seen the Redland dryverge system? thats not super expensive either. It might work well for your tiles, Are they Redland?

Comer1

CJhaughey wrote: »

Have you seen the Redland dryverge system? thats not super expensive either. It might work well for your tiles, Are they Redland?

I've seen that type online alright, and I like the fact that it's one tile at a time so I don't have to strip the entire roof at once. The first quick Google shows that system costing about €700. Not too bad.

I wouldn't be up to resetting them in mortar myself and surely it would cost that to pay someone to do it.

I'd like to find a place in Ireland that supplies them so I can visit and see the system first hand before forking out that kind of money.

roshje

Comer1 wrote: »

I've seen that type online alright, and I like the fact that it's one tile at a time so I don't have to strip the entire roof at once. The first quick Google shows that system costing about €700. Not too bad.

I wouldn't be up to resetting them in mortar myself and surely it would cost that to pay someone to do it.

I'd like to find a place in Ireland that supplies them so I can visit and see the system first hand before forking out that kind of money.

Hi just wondering how it all went for you. I must replace fascia, soffit and timber and wanted to use the dry verge system on the tile roof but was told wont work with old roof.