Sunday 16 August 2015

Today I have mostly been...

… removing a small jungle and a few last sad strips of rotting 'tar paper' from the roof of our shed and replacing it with two layers of 250 micron damp course. Let's see how long it lasts.






The gardening weather gods smiled on me, it was overcast but warmish, just right for this sort of job.

9 comments:

Lola said...

Every man needs a shed

Ralph Musgrave said...

Re "how long it lasts", black polythene stands up to ultra-violet from sunlight for about two years. Roofing felt (you only need one layer on a shed)would last longer. I put the latter on my garage 10 years ago and it's as good as new.

Mark Wadsworth said...

L, and every woman, which is why we have two.

RM, yes, but the wooden roof was a bit damp in places so there was little point trying to glue on felt.

I hope that by the time the plastic looks like it is going to fail, the wood will have dried out properly.

Woodsy42 said...

While you were doing that I was crawling round the garage stripping down the suspension of a Triumph Herald to replace a nasty worn rubber bush. What mad, wild, exciting things we all get up to nowadays!
BTW, plastic will not last in the sun, you need roofing felt.

Lola said...

Are we now into a posting series of 'my shed's bigger and better than yours'?

Mark Wadsworth said...

W42, is it running again nicely and see reply to RM

L, no our sjed are rubbish, they came free with the house

Lola said...

W42. Were you indeed. And how are your trunnions, may I ask?

Woodsy42 said...

My trunions are very well thanks Lola, well greased and capable of twisting in various directions while my wishbone is rebushed with saucy red polybushes. (re-mot tomorow).

Bayard said...

Mark, I am afraid that there is a good chance that the wood will never dry out under plastic, as the dew will form on the underside every night and keep it damp (remember the "survival in the desert" trick of putting a bowl under a sheet of plastic?).

W42, I once owned a Herald and was told by the previous owner that those bushes needed to be replaced every year, which he did. like you, just before the MOT.