Ridge capping on shed roof

[soundman]

It may not seem that much could get under a properly scribed ridge cap BUT
I was in a roof last week with a prety well scribed ridge and alll the way down the middle of the cieling was a thick scatering of fine vegitable debris.
Not whole gum leaves as such bit little bets of fibre from the flowers, eucalipt caps, tiny bits of twig and little leaves like from a leopard or poinciana tree.
This would have been at least 22.5deg pitch.

Over a long period this accumulation can get quite substantial. I have seen this in a number of cielings over the years. Tile rooves with no sarking can be realy filty places if there are trees with fine folage near by.

cheers

[Pulpo]

I would either use expanding foam, which works well if not exposed to the sun.

Or a good silicone, depending on the gap.

I never scribed the capping for my shed, just the bent the valleys in the corru sheets.

I cannot tell whether the gum flowers are getting in as I have placed sarky on top of the rafters.

Good Luck with the office in the shed.

Pulpo

[scooter]

Chris source either Laserlite brand foam infill that is cut to the corrugated profile one side & flat the other side; or Diggers brand bitumen impregnated foam strips with the same profile, ie. flat one side & corr the other.

You could get them from your local hardware or building centre, or both are available at Bunnings in the indoor timber section.

Loosen/remove the screws holding the ridge cap down, insert the foam strips, under the edge of the cap, & screw back down.


Cheers mate............Sean, eats roots & leaves

[Waldo]

G'day,

Thanks everyone for your help.

Looks like I'll be checking out Bunnies and the joint at Ringwood that Sturdee mentioned. Thanks, Scooter for giving me the names of the stuff, it saves me when I go to Bunnies and sometimes having forgotten or not knowing the name of what I'm after and calling it a "thingymebob" or the "whatchacallit", did that once with something so simple that I felt like an old man with dementia (maybe that's what my grey hairs have been trying to tell me )

[julianx]

I was shocked when first found out the southern states don't scribe their flashings. Ever if they don't get the same weather and unscribed ridge just doesn't look finished.

[Waldo]

G'day julianx,

That shocks you, what shocked me moving down here from Brisbane is how flaming cold it is down here. Still don't know why I moved down, nah it's OK, just the cold is something you don't get uesd to.

[ThePope]

I was shocked when first found out the southern states don't scribe their flashings.

Who told you that.

[echnidna]

G'day julianx,

That shocks you, what shocked me moving down here from Brisbane is how flaming cold it is down here. Still don't know why I moved down, nah it's OK, just the cold is something you don't get uesd to.

Mate you aint been cold till yer spend a weekend in Ballarat or New England,
mind you The Alice gets very brisk some nights.

Get a sawdust burner in yer shed, gets ridda rubbish and warms it all up.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I was shocked when first found out the southern states don't scribe their flashings. Ever if they don't get the same weather and unscribed ridge just doesn't look finished.

Cowboys will be cowboys, no matter what state they're in.

Mate you aint been cold till yer spend a weekend in Ballarat or New England,

I spent 2 years t'other side of Ballaraat (Blampied) and I gotta agree with you about the place. I never believed in black ice until I rode the harley out thru the Swiss Alps one cold, chill morning. $ad memorie$.

[Waldo]

G'day Echidna,

I've been in Armidale - that has to be the coldest place in the joint. Horribly cold there, so's Toowoomba, but not as bad.