Forum Archive Index - May 2003

["DR" <hamish@webmail.visp.co.nz>]

macdunk,

Ya gotta have eaves! They help stop the rain from being blown up hill. Mine are 900mm.

Ya need a longrun roof with a decent pitch with none of those gaps under tiles to let the water be blown up hill. I replaced my old Decramastic with longrun.

Ya need some continuous heavy building paper under the roof too. I put the best breather paper under my new longrun.

I got the brick veneer  mate. Unfortunately the stupid clown who built it didn't put extra wall insulation in (before the regs )

I just added an upper level and I used PVC weatherboard. Great stuff. And I put in 200mm high flashings and even that may not totally prevent moisture under a good blow. But its better than the 100mm that I could have got away with.

 

And a point about these Master Builders and their big advertising campaign on the TV.

They will bend just the same as any of their unassociated mates if they have to to make a sale.

D