Eave tray installation

dl8860

dl8860

dl8860

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Had a roofer round to quote for sorting out some damp issues up near the roof, he's diagnosed it as the felt at the edge of the roof sagging down and subsequently rainwater is running onto the facia board/soffits and soaking into the brickwork (house is late 19th Century so non-cavity walls - I guess this is going between the two skins?), which makes sense as you can see daylight between the facia and gutters, and there is definitely some water ingress as evidenced by staining on my ceilings.

He's quoted to install some eave trays, at a cost of 450 quid + VAT.

I can see the eave trays themselves are 25 quid for a pack of 5 (5x1.5m = 7.5m) at screwfix, so I'm wondering if I can get hold of a big enough ladder (it's at the top of the first storey) then is this a job I can do quite easily myself? Is it any more complicated than this video shows? Are there some roofing secrets I don't know about and will come unstuck with?

https://www.guttersupplies.co.uk/eaves-protection/how-to-install-an-eaves-guard-video/
 
It's definitely more complicated than that video, for starts there's no tiles, you have to remove the bottom two rows of tiles at least. The difficulty will be how they have been nailed? every three? every two? every one? The video also uses enormous tile spacing, they must be massive tiles, if you have small clay tiles you may also need to remove the first batten.

What you going to do about any leadwork, mortar or broken tiles?
 
OK fair enough, what are your thoughts on the price quoted? Say 2 packs of trays = 50 quid, plus generously call it another 50 in incidentals that's 100 quid on materials.

350 quid for max 2 hours (correct me if I'm wrong?) up a ladder seems a bit steep?
 
dl8860 said:
OK fair enough, what are your thoughts on the price quoted? Say 2 packs of trays = 50 quid, plus generously call it another 50 in incidentals that's 100 quid on materials.

350 quid for max 2 hours (correct me if I'm wrong?) up a ladder seems a bit steep?
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Is the roofer planning to do it from a ladder?
 
An eves tray directs the water into the gutter, what is the thing in your OP doing?

Edit, just watched the video, didn;t look like the plastic stuck out enough.

We had ours done on a slate roof, i'd not fancy doing it myself, pain in the bottom removing the slates.
 
Insurance and liability, My family are all trades and not one of them will go above 6ft on a ladder now due to the cost of liability insurance!
 
You'd only need tower scaffold wouldn't you?

Cost me £6k to have cavity trays installed and all the insulation removed, so what you've been quoted seems reasonable.
 
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