The new sheet-metal "valley liners" were put into place around the dormer on our roof yesterday. I made up the term "valley liners" because I don't know the jargon. In French, a valley between two parts of a roof is called
une noue (de charpente ou de toiture). Our old
noue liners were leaky. Having new metal liners (called
zinc or
zinguerie in French) installed requires removing a lot of roof tiles and then putting them back in place after the
noue liners are nailed to the roof beams. In our case, the job is costing about three thousand dollars for materials and labor.
Today the tiles will be put back on the roof structure. Our hope is that we won't have leaks any more, but we won't know that until it rains again. Can you believe I'm hoping for rain after all the moaning I've done about the excessive amount of rain that has fallen here over the past five or six months? Finally, I have to say that a simple roof would be much better than a complex roof like ours. In other words, no
noues is good news...
That should do the job.
ReplyDeleteHaving those windows makes your loft area much nicer. I hope it's fixed. Here every repair costs thousands it seems. It will be worth it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, $3k is pretty reasonable compared to what that might be stateside. The lucarne makes your roof more interesting and the house more attractive, I think.
ReplyDeleteA contractor-friend replaced some shingles that had come down after a wind-storm shortly after we moved into our newly-built home in Wisconsin. We had some extras the builder had left us and our friend, said, "let me go up there - it is a simple thing to replace them, I can do it tomorrow." When he was done he took our hose and climbed back up on the roof and asked me to turn the water on full force to check that there were no leaks. It was not difficult so you could try your hose now rather than waiting for a rain storm. You might have a difficulty with the height of that dormer, though. I do not have problems with a ladder and mine is a two-story one.
ReplyDeleteTerrific job from the photo! Glad the contractor came so quickly.
ReplyDeleteThose window boxes with the flowers make your house looked loved. I hope your leak problem has been resolved.
ReplyDeleteMadonna