Roofing felt!

[Vapouriser]

Having just made my first building- an IP Holt I decided I d like to add a bit to it. I found a Prams and Toys shops in Wisbech selling various gauges of plastic pipe I can use as guttering then I thought , what about the roof?! Anyone tried sand paper stuck on and painted to waterproof it. It wont be left outside for long periods. Am I allowed to say here -we are now on our 4 IP kit and cannot reccomend highly enough. And cheap!

[Sir Clothem Cap]

I'm not sure sandpaper would survive the odd minor downpour. I use plastic moulded sheet that I brought on ebay it looks like tiles and is waterproof already

[MDLR]

One thing you CAN do is to take the labels off your tinned foods (preferably AFTER you've eaten the contents - doing it BEFORE can make life VERY interesting!) - then cut out the middle, corrugated, section - un-bend it and get it really hot with a blowtorch to get all the plating and gunge off it. Cut it up into scale 6' by 2' sheets and fix to the ply roof with track pins or summat similar.

Leave the building outside (off the ground, somewhere sheltered) for six months and you'll have a genuine rusty tin roof!

If you go to your local supermarket looking for tins with larger corrugated middle sections, be prepared for odd looks from the other shoppers (and look at tinned new potatoes - I've found these to be a good bet in the past)

[GTB]

Anyone tried sand paper stuck on and painted to waterproof it. It wont be left outside for long periods.

There are sandpapers and then there are sandpapers..........

Wet and Dry 'sandpaper' was developed to be used wet, so it's waterproof and probably as weatherproof as plywood. Use a waterproof glue to apply it though.

Pick the right grit size and the dark grey colour and texture looks like an asphalt surface, or a roofing material like Malthoid.

It won't do a paintbrush a lot of good though, so spray paint it if you want to change the colour.

Graeme

[Vapouriser]

I d like to use corragated tins but still have an unpleasant memoryof one! Wet and dry. Why didnt I think of that. Dont answer! Thanks all

[Vapouriser]

Change the colour. Wet and dry looked very smart for a couple of days till the local bird population discovered it. Oh ek.

[peterbunce]

Hi,

You can make your own; you want a two handled paper crimper, and the base of some food trays cut up to rectangles.

The crimper is held in a vice and ther small sheets fed through, they are fixed to your roof with window frame sealer., and the overlaps sealed with Evo-stik.

I use (as a customer) the 4 bird roast tins from Aldi - they are 4 thou thick, which I think is likely to be standard, the foil from them is quite ductile and will go through, with care, the paper crimper . Flashing around chimmnies, skylights is from the same stuff.

Paint to suit when all is dry

[anythingsdr]

or you coud just use roofing felt

[Johnnie2sheds]

I've just done some accy vans ( I dont like the brilliant white rooves on these vehicles). Masking tape, painted mucky. It does sometimes peel up but is easily superglued back down. Photo to follow if required (I'm at work atm)

[Adam R]

What about real slate tiles.

Select a nice chunk of square slate about half an inch thick.

get a hacksaw and cut it into a block, and then cut it into the rouch size of your tiles with the hacksaw, Immideately put it in a bucket of water, then leave it overnight.

Get the blade from an old pencil sharpener and a toffee hammer.

get a block of slate, and stand it on end, and split the block in half so its now 2 pieces quater of an inch thick, repeat this, chopping it in the middle each time till you have roof tiles.

to split, place the blade accross sharp side on the slate, blunt side, tap with the hammer repeatedly, DONT slit your fingers open, it WILL hurt. use a pair of pliars to hold the blade if you think you will chop your digit off or smack your thumb

This isnt my idea, i learnt it from a friend, it works well, and ive just returned form bryneglwys quarry in wales with some 'prime' cuts of slate.

its waterproof, being slate and whats scrap can be made into platform edging stones.

Leaving it in water is important, it wont split otherwise this small.

If you loose fingers, eyes, other body parts, explode in a horrible firey way, its nowt t do with me

Ill probably have a go tonight as I need some wagon loads for my TR stock, when i perfect my technique, ill make a video. If not, Beg kes to get steve to make a video

[Vapouriser]

Heehee. What a wealth of information. Real slate too. Now that sounds really nice. I think I ll have a plan B though!

[laalratty]

Adam, really useful post there, would you mind if I copy and pasted the text into a new post in the "Reference Libary" forum (or perhapes you might like to do it), it just seems to be a brilliant little guide that is lost in a topic with a subject line that would make it hard to spot

[Adam R]

Adam, really useful post there, would you mind if I copy and pasted the text into a new post in the "Reference Libary" forum (or perhapes you might like to do it), it just seems to be a brilliant little guide that is lost in a topic with a subject line that would make it hard to spot

will do it now glad its of use.