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cheers lads. my body fucking aches though from doing 12 hours labour pulling and lifting 3 days in a row. think i might get back at it tomorrow
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cheers lads. my body fucking aches though from doing 12 hours labour pulling and lifting 3 days in a row. think i might get back at it tomorrow
thats what she saidBend the ballcock.
I think you are playing a fucking blinder with all thisWeirdly, that problem never returned. But the day after I posted the above, I spotted our neighbour's overflow pipe was also dripping. Maybe a temporary increase in water pressure?
Today's work was up on the flat roof one the garage and kitchen, using patches of torch on felt to patch up potential leaks in the roof. My hands have multiple little burns on them now.
This is the business for non burny repairsWeirdly, that problem never returned. But the day after I posted the above, I spotted our neighbour's overflow pipe was also dripping. Maybe a temporary increase in water pressure?
Today's work was up on the flat roof one the garage and kitchen, using patches of torch on felt to patch up potential leaks in the roof. My hands have multiple little burns on them now.
And what would you rather they do? Genuine questionthankfully this is just the flat roof over the garage and kitchen; it has a half inch thick layer of bitumen or asphalt on it which has shrunk and cracked a little over the 70 years its been there, so i just patch up the cracks every year or two.
i've had roofers come out and quote me for ripping the old stuff off and re-covering it, but they only every want to lay torch-on over the top which doesn't address the underlying problem.
Buy something modern, do you mean epdm? Or something similar?strip the covering that's there, off, and replace it with something modern; a neighbour had this done, but that job involved insulating the roof with the replacement covering, which i don't really want to pay for as most of that section is over the garage.
i just don't want to pay for someone to felt over the top of what's there if it's going to continue to shrink, and which could just tear the felt.
i haven't done a lot of research into what's available, to be fair.
one other minor complicating factor is that many years ago, a hole was punched through the flat roof for an asbestos flue; and i'd need to get that hole filled in/repaired.
the main issue is where that feathers up against the wall of the first storey of the house - in places, gaps of half an inch or an inch have opened, and i suspect it'd just pull the felt off slowly.
this also happened recently, i think during the hot spell.
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