MEW 319 – Roofing A Shed??????

[lee websterParticipant @leewebster72680]

I spent some time recently repairing my garage roof. It is a timber garage the length of two cars. I re-felted the roof several years ago, and it needs doing again. My repairs will last until next year. I really must get the issue with the shed roof article.

[Steve355Participant @steve355]

Posted by lee webster on 21/08/2022 20:17:44:

I spent some time recently repairing my garage roof. It is a timber garage the length of two cars. I re-felted the roof several years ago, and it needs doing again. My repairs will last until next year. I really must get the issue with the shed roof article.

there’s a nice series on YouTube by a roofer “fixmyroof” that I learnt from, do it that way and it’ll cost a bit but last 100 years.

[lee websterParticipant @leewebster72680]

I managed to park near Smiths in Camborne and buy the magazine. I am not dissapointed! When After I had carried out a tempory repair to my shed/garage roof I wondered which way to replace the felt next year. New felt, fibreglass or some sort of metal roof. I hadn't considered the rubber method even though I was aware it existed. Now I can add that system to my list. The rest of the magazine is very readable too. I especially liked the page with private ads.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

The original felt roof on the workshop started to show signs of old age after ten years. By eleven years something had to be done.

Having an EPDM rubber roof on the flat roof of the garage, with a 20 year guaranteen and a 50 year life expectancy, the workshop roof was a no brainer..

Ordered in the morning, all that was needed arrive at 8 am the following day.

It took two of us half a day with heat guns and scrapers to remove the bitumen that had held the felt, and a lot less time to spread the adhesive and lay the rubber.

You lay the rubber, and roll back half of it before applying the adhesive. The rubber is then laid over the adhesive coated part, and the other half of of the rubber rolled back over it, for the rest of the roof to be coated with adhesive. Roll out the rubber, taking care not to trap any air bubbles, and then fit the trims, one by one one, before adding the joint and corner pieces.Fitting the trims was pretty straight forward (Don't get the ring shank nails in the wrong place or bend them ALMOST impossible to remove. ).

The following morning went round with a Stanley knife and cut off the excess rubber below the trims.

The roof is neat and has no through holes to allow leaks, and being wrapped over the edges, and secured by the trims, make water ingress virtually impossible.

So far, the rubber roof has given me nine years of peace of mind, with more extending into the future.

Very much a "fit and forget" job.

Howard

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Last year when I mentioned I needed to re-roof my workshop, I had a HUGE amount of feed back from readers offering advice and suggestions, most of which did not make the pages of the magazine or forum.

A strong theme of those messages was to go with a rubber roof, and I very nearly did this, but cost and time constraints sent me another way.

There was so much enthusiasm and interest in this as an option for roofing a workshop, it seemed a no-brainer to carry an article on the subject. Exactly WHAT got a roof is largely irrelevant, as long as the approach was applicable to a workshop. I would argue that the physical aspects of making and maintaining workshops do belong in the magazine.

As for the Science Museum… it was pretty tightly focused on the origins of our workshop tooling. The clock was focused on solving engineering problems rather than being a detailed build.

But yes, this issue did have a slightly different flavour to recent issues – my aim is to try and keep up a level of variety. I do hear your feedback and will look at the balance of upcoming issues.

We plan a reader survey in the near future, in the hopes of getting feedback on what you do and don't like to see in the magazine.

That said, the main factor influencing content is what I get sent by potential contributors, so if you feel a subject should have more attention… Why not write an article about it? Or if you just want to know more about something, write a letter to Scribe a Line asking for more information on it.

Neil

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Posted by Howard Lewis on 24/08/2022 22:47:40:

(Don't get the ring shank nails in the wrong place or bend them ALMOST impossible to remove. ).

Now there's a need for an article. Difficult screw/nail/etc remover tools. Probably multiple options to make a series.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Posted by Bazyle on 24/08/2022 23:29:11:

Posted by Howard Lewis on 24/08/2022 22:47:40:

(Don't get the ring shank nails in the wrong place or bend them ALMOST impossible to remove. ).

Now there's a need for an article. Difficult screw/nail/etc remover tools. Probably multiple options to make a series.

Yes, the EDM machine could run into a few pages alone

[File HandleParticipant @filehandle]

When I read about not getting the ring shank screws in the wrong place, it seems that stainless steel wood screws would be a better option.

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