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This might be your friend: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roofing-Flashing-Tape-Flashband-Repairing-Sealing-Self-Adhesive-10m-Roll/192714559401?hash=item2cdeaecfa9:m:md9DC5zbsjSyy7kA8AYQAqA it's flexible and applied to the surface using a butane torch, I've used it to hold down the flashing to the tiles & brickwork around the chimney four years ago and it's doing a good job given my exposed coastal location. Now I need to do the same to the flashing against next door's house what with the rain falling onto the tiles and then getting blown under the flashing in gale force southerly winds and dribbles down the wall inside the loft, but is fine during heavy rain in calm wind.
Originally Posted by: idj20
Thanks. I've got no head for heights these days (think you the same) so I'll be looking to get someone to do it for me. Probably the builders roofers since they are still taking responsibility for fixing it.
On the subject of roofs here's a pic of what Storm Ciara did to ours. The lead flashing was stuck back down on Monday morning but I expect it to lift again this weekend. It could really do with securing by screws or something comparable.
Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze
My goodness - what a way to do a roof. Anyway I've got a suggestion. Mastick - get one which is good for rooves. That should sort it - You can't use screws or else they'll make holes which the water would find its way round - But mastick should secure that.
When we had the roof on our extension replaced I actually asked for the pitched part to be tiled just like that. The roofers wanted to do it in felt. I thought it would look naff. I didn't think it through. I fear the same will happen to mine eventually - though fortunately I'm not in an exposed location.
What code flashing is that Brian looks a bit thin to me when I zoom in I would be tempted to put a little roof tar under that flashing, should not be lifting like that, exposed or gales
Thompson’s emergency roof mastic is very good👍
Originally Posted by: Hungry Tiger
There seems to be huge variation between the models at the moment. I don't think we can really be sure how strong the winds will be.
ARPEGE and ICON have lower gusts across the south east on Sunday compared to GFS. The timing of that front also varies a lot between models.
Meanwhile WRF12z (about to be overrun by the 18z) has 150kph gusts from Liverpool to Hull at midnight on Saturday night. 160kph in the Liverpool area. That's 100mph! Surely an outlier.
http://modeles16.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2020021412/nmm_uk1-11-36-1.png?14-17
HIRLAM has 75mph across the south east early on Sunday
http://modeles7.meteociel.fr/modeles/fmi/runs/2020021412/fmiuk-11-40-0.png?14-19
Probably bit ott but about 14 hours of 60mph gust for s/e on that
https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/arpege.aspx?run=12&charthour=33&chartname=ukwindvector_gust&chartregion=uk-region&charttag=Wind%20gust
Originally Posted by: Polar Low
There was sealant in and they've put a load more now. I think this sort of thing:
https://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-lead-sheet-sealant-grey-310ml/21594
However, the problem is more fundamental as Buggles said earlier.
Agreed GW - on both intensity and timing. I’m slightly surprised that flights out of Gatwick and Luton (possibly others) on Sunday morning have already been cancelled. I’d have expected them to wait to the 24h point.
You beat me to it Ian. It was something like that I had in mind. Brian definately needs that.
Only 5mm so far here today, rain has been quite fragmented although picking up again now.Winds gusting up to 50mph.
The wind seems stronger and gustier here than it was during Ciara. Official readings are roughly the same or slightly lower though with 60mph at Odiham. The radar shows no more heavy rain here for quite some time, nothing even showing in the SW approaches yet.
Look at that squall line moving through North Yorkshire/ Northumberland it looks vicious.
Originally Posted by: roadrunnerajn
Looks even more prominent now and should hit here in about an hour.
It is quite windy at this end of Kent as expected, but only modest rainfall with 2.0 mm so far.Could be a different story tomorrow, though.
Squall was nothing on last week though here.2mm in a few mins , total now 12mm.55mph gusts.