Bit confused on how I'm supposed to re-felt shed roof.

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82044780#Comment_82044780

As with the last post, it's already bought I'm afraid.

Was about £50 for 10mtr on Amazon.

We don't have a B&Q locally since whoever in their wisdom thought it good to take it down & set up the 500th supermarket in the area instead. For any kind of hardware stuff it's a travel these days.

I bought off Amazon as I don't want to be hanging around on a who-knows-when with delivery.

May be expensive, may be about right. May be poor, may be OK but it's bought now & should be better than the torn felt that's on there right now.

B0bbyEwing

That bitumen adhesive is absolutely horrendous stuff. Gets everywhere, ruins everything it touches. Forget being careful with it, you may as well not bother because it's getting somewhere. T-shirt, pants, shoes, somewhere.

On the topic of which, used it on the bottom pieces & it ran through inside the shed on to various bits.

Great.

Then used it on the overlaps where top sheet rested on the side sheets. Seemed to be ok & call it a day.

Wake up to loads of runs down the side sheets & dripping off the edges, front & rear.

I spread it out as best as I could & didn't leave absolute mounds in one spot so I didn't think it'd end up like this. Thankfully our back garden flags are a bit of an eyesore so it's just another thing to make them look unappealing. Good job we hadn't recently had the garden done.

Horrible job. My concern is now that it's not tight enough & will lift up in heavy wind. It seemed tight at the time of nailing but not as much by the following day. Time will tell but hopefully it doesn't end up blowing off in to someones garden.

bjorn_toby_wilde

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82053220#Comment_82053220

It’s horrible stuff to use I agree.

Personally I only use it on the overlaps. Don’t worry too much about how tight it is. This hot weather means it expands a bit. In the winter when it blows a hooley it’ll probably be fine.

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82053226#Comment_82053226

I was prepared for runs…which is why I didn't layer it up super thick right at the very edge of the overlap. I went close but not right to. I just didn't expect it to be so bad. Maybe it's because of the temperature. It's about 20c here so god knows what it'd have been like last week when it was 30c.

Oh well the felt is on now. It looks parc because of the runs, the drips have made a mess in areas around the perimeter but because of what's at the sides you can only really see right in front of the door where the paving slab has loads of blobs.

But so long as it doesn't leak any more then it's an improvement & it'll have to do because it was leaking terribly during heavy rain. Cardboard boxes were saturated, my car wash bucket had a load of water in it. It was really quite bad.

grumpy_codger

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82053220#Comment_82053220

Reminded me Three Men in a Boat:

We had taken up an oil-stove once, but “never again.” It had been like
living in an oil-shop that week. It oozed. I never saw such a thing as
paraffine oil is to ooze. We kept it in the nose of the boat, and, from
there, it oozed down to the rudder, impregnating the whole boat and
everything in it on its way, and it oozed over the river, and saturated
the scenery and spoilt the atmosphere. Sometimes a westerly oily wind
blew, and at other times an easterly oily wind, and sometimes it blew a
northerly oily wind, and maybe a southerly oily wind; but whether it came
from the Arctic snows, or was raised in the waste of the desert sands, it
came alike to us laden with the fragrance of paraffine oil.

And that oil oozed up and ruined the sunset; and as for the moonbeams,
they positively reeked of paraffine.

…

At the end of that trip we met together at midnight in a lonely field,
under a blasted oak, and took an awful oath (we had been swearing for a
whole week about the thing in an ordinary, middle-class way, but this was
a swell affair) – an awful oath never to take paraffine oil with us in a
boat again-except, of course, in case of sickness.

That said, I used gloves and a brush and didn't have any problems with bitumen adhesive. Admittedly, the weather wasn't that hot.

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82053790#Comment_82053790

I also used gloves and a brush.

It got everywhere. Maybe I shouldn't have done it in the temps I did but it was maybe 20-22c ish at a guess. Not cold but not overly hot I would've thought. Today is a bit cooler & it's glooping up now.

I've got the guttering back on, tucked underneath the felt drip edge which was a ballache. I couldn't leave the guttering on to apply the felt so had no choice but to take it off but then it was awkward getting it back on. The guy who built it only gave about a 30mm drip edge. I gave 60mm since guides were saying 50mm-75mm.

bjorn_toby_wilde

I think I’m losing it. I read your comment and thought what’s a ballache? Is that some kind of french dessert?

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82055179#Comment_82055179

Ah sorry you mustn't talk like that I guess.

Let me have another bash...

By jove it was a trifle difficult.

bjorn_toby_wilde

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82055209#Comment_82055209

Not at all. I just misread it and it made me laugh.