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Allotment Stuff => The Basics => Topic started by: terrace max on November 19, 2005, 16:46:47
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My new old shed is now erected but the roof felt was a gonner so I need to get it replaced before the weather turns wet again. Never done this before and I am a DIY dimwit.
Any of you kind people got any tips? It's an apex roof - each section being maybe 5' x 4'.
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There is a bssic guide here:
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq_advice/common/howtos/buildashed/main.pdf
One secret is to buy the best felt you can, normal shed felt is very cheap and tears easily.
Jerry
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Got my felt from B and Q good quality and quite cheap.
Put the two sides on forst and then cover over the middle tacking down as you go.
Good luck
Chris
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Thank you gents. Do you cut the felt to size before attaching it to the roof, or do you trim it after? Is a stanley knife the best implement for cutting it?
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From a woman!!! Please make sure you put the felt nails through to a support, unlike my son-in-law bless him who missed the cross beam by about half inch. He swore he put nails where they were before!!!! Well a man can never be wrong can he ???
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Thank you gents. Do you cut the felt to size before attaching it to the roof, or do you trim it after? Is a stanley knife the best implement for cutting it?
Trim roughly to size first and then put on the roof. Once tacked down to the roof trim to size and fold over the corners and the edges so wind cant get under and lift it.
A good peice of felt should last 5 years at least.
Jerry
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Please make sure you put the felt nails through to a support, unlike my son-in-law bless him who missed the cross beam by about half inch.
Ah, so you can't just whack those tacks in anywhere...?
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Now now TM are you taking the ?? mickey???? Good luck.
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No, really not! I thought tacks were short enough to bang in anywhere on the roof...
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Wardy.. Especially when the kettle is boiling??
TM ,, Apologies... I thought you were pulling my leg. (Wardy Behave!!)
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I love my shed too! our lottie overlooks the sea (Whitstable) so we have painted ours in blue and green stripes like a beach hut, it's lovely, and we're going to have a montage of pin ups/photos inside the door (so far we , have one of monty don and one of my sister and nephew, we have our lunch in there - who ever guessed a shed could bring so much pleasure!
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like the sound of the brandy coffee! but where do you do the washing up after all that cooking?
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Sorry, but every time I see this thread it screams out to me that it should say 'How to feel a shed roof' not 'felt'. :D
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I want a shed (http://www.geminigraphics.com/images/animagif/tantrum.gif)
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I bought mine for £30 from Barbara.
(That's no help at all is it?)
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I don't know - has she got any more? ;D
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You could ask her - she lives in that big bungalow off Main Street....
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Against the bus stop by Mrs Sherman's
Appen that's Derbyshire talk? ??? :)
Red - if you do get a cheap old shed ensure that it has roof felt on: I got mine done yesterday: it was even colder 6 foot up a ladder than at ground level. The only compensation was that when I hit my thumb with the hammer it didn't hurt because my hands were so numb!
Definitely a summer job!
BTW Jerry you was right - I was given some cheap felt to use up by a neighbour and it was worse than useless.
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Glad your felt is on. I noticed couple of days ago (when I was up steps to fix windchime) that one side of sunroom the felt needs renewing. Will do it myself this time....hope to goodness I get the nails in the right spot otherwise son-in-law will never let me live it down!!!!!
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Wardy I had an excellent teacher. Charlie was 1st class DIY person.He could do woodwork(made Grandchildren. Dolls Houses. Rocking horses. Garages etc) also lovely wrought iron fencing.. Plumbing and excellent at wall paper hanging. However he would not touch electrical jobs , luckily son is qualified electrician.. Charlie would get so cross when he could no longer do the jobs he loved doing. So what I am saying I knew exactly what nails to buy. I would add he hated gardening, other than doing all the cuttings for me. Oh well can't have it all ;D ;D
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I don't know much about sheds but it does remind me of a story an old school friend told me the other day.
I was just buying a newspaper when I saw this Rolls Royce pull up outside the newsagents. To my surprise an old mate got out.
"Wow. You've done well for yourself." I said through thinly-veiled, green eyes. "How did you get to drive that?"
"Well, just after we left school I spotted an old kennel in a front garden." he started. " I gave the guy a fiver for it, did it up a bit, new felt roof etc. and flogged it for a score."
"So you made a mint in dog kennels?" I asked increduously.
" Well not really. You see a couple of weeks later I saw an old shed in the small ads for twenty quid. Did it up, new felt roof, sold it for fifty notes. Sorted."
"So you made your fortune in sheds?"
"No sod the sheds. My uncle died wo weeks later and left me five million!"
Sorry. ;D
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Noddy. Did you get his phone number?? I suppose he is not one of my relatives in Kent and keeping secrets from me!!!!!!
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No sorry Lorna. As a Man of Kent/Kentish Man (never know which) I can confirm wealthy relatives are a bit thin on the ground in these parts.
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Noddy. Oh well back to picking numbers for the lottery ;D ;D