New roof for the summer house.
The old one was a textile based asphalt roofing felt, layed on the original wood shingle roof from the 40's. The old roofing felt was probably put on at late 60's. To put it lightly the old roofing felt was in a quite bad shape... Old wood shingle roof under had saved the building from any major damages. Both of the lower eaves were quite rotten, as the water leaking through the old roofing felt had stopped there. The original shingle roof under the felt was in great shape, minus the eaves.
I chose a modern bitumen based and fibre reinforced roofing felt laid on a similiar way as the old roofing, as it's quite easy and cost effective if you don't count in your own work.
Many people would argue against and would say that a steel roofing is the only way, but the cost and labour of a well built steel roofing for an old building is something else than with a modern roofing felt. Also the building isn't exactly laser straight on every corner, so if I'd have chose the steel roofing, I would've had to straighten the roof and that would've taken a lot more of my time than I currently have to spare.
Also I like the look of a well built felt roof if the rest of the building is also ~60's style.
Few pics.
Ant's nest at the old rotten eaves boards under the roofing felt.
But there's nothing a good old hand held circular saw won't solve. Bit of cutting and all the rotten wood was gone.
Of course those cut out parts had to be replaced with new wood.
I also installed steel eaves protectors at the same time. The bitumen roofing will be glued on to the eaves protectors with bitumen glue.
New roofing felts
This kind of a traditional roofing felt setup needs a lot of (about 4000 on a roof this size) roofing nails.. As we have modern tools nowadays I bought a pressure nail gun to do the job.
I started to work on the roof at 11th of this month and finished the job at this morning.
A bit tight schedule as I had to drive ~500km back home today as my vacation ends today.
Well I got it done in time. I originally planned to rebuild the chimney on the roof also but as the eaves were quite rotten and required a rebuild, it didn't leave me time to rebuild the chimney. Well, some work left for next summer..
It's a first roof I've ever built so I'm quite satisfied with the result.