Phew! After absolutely aeons just putting this job off, I finally got around to doing it.
When Ol’ Ken Cole very kindly gave us his old shed, it came with a corrugated metal roof. Six panels. This was the only roof of the original shed. A junction of the wavy roofing with the straight wooden elements of the shed itself equals gaps, equals cold draughts!
So I put the corrugated roofing panels to one side, and fitted an OSB roof, covering that with roofing felt. The corrugated sheets have languished behind the shed, propped up against the fence, for several years.
I bought a box of self-tapping hex-headed screws from Wrights Tools. These include a kind of ‘gasket’ (?), to seal the hole where the screw fixes to the substrate. This entailed the purchase of some drill bit adaptors.
I tried doing a few of the screws with spanners. Each one took several minutes, was hard work, and was fraught wit the continual possibility of me dropping te spanner off the roof… which I did indeed do!
So, off to Screwfix, for a set of these (six, eight and ten mm):
Having the right tools for a job is sooo important. What took several minutes of aggravating and clumsy labour, I can now do in seconds. Bliss!
I did the whole job solo. Lifting the roofing sheets on to the shed roof was hard work. And gloves were essential. Esp’ having recently cut a finger very deeply. Once up on the roof, after years in outdoor storage, I dusted off the cack (and many spiders, some rather large!) from the sheets with a broom.
I had also cleaned all the detritus, inc as much guano – a few weeks back I’d removed all the dead leaves and branches – as I could remove, from the roofing felt, prior to getting the sheets up. I did one sheet at a time, working from the end that receives the prevailing winds (easterly at the time).
The overlap I opted for is just one ridge. The final sheet being the exception. A neighbour informed me that storm Isha is due soon! So I’m glad I’ve finally got this job – which turned out to be surprisingly easy (one I had the right tools and fixings) – ahead of a poss’ spell of Gould weather (snow is also forecast!).
Really this is a spring or summer job. And here I am doing it in the depths of winter. it was damnably cold. But manuel labia keeps one warm! Achievement is indeed more durable than joy.
Whilst these sheets cover the whole roof length-wise, eagle-eyed viewers may spot that they don’t quite cover it all width-wise. I could, I suppose, get another panel, and chop it up to add the necessary extra strip. But I doubt I will.
To photograph the whole new roof I leaned the ladder against the nearby tree. But even then I was too close to get it all in frame with the normal ‘photo’ setting. So I shot in ‘pano’ format. Hence the curved distortion of some images.