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Please bear in mind I'm not a roofer so I may do things differently but I did my research and tried to use the best solutions on my roof where possible. Lead soakers are only used on slate or flat tiles like rosemary tiles. If you have a grooved tile they aren't used, just covered over the top with lead so yours may be ok. However from speaking to many people who have experienced leaks on a slate roof, a lack of lead soakers seems to be a common problem!

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It was my best pair of boxers of days gone buy....good spot!

If you watch my loft conversion videos I fit the lead apron after the soakers just because of the order I had to do things for one thing or another. However I slid it under my soaker and formed the upturn on the soaker over and around the apron hense why I left it poking out as mentioned in the video. It's easy enough to slide under after soakers are fitted. Thanks for watching!

@@POUSEaroundtheHOUSE Looking good for a DIY'er! It's great you have the balls to have a go at anything! I'm a roofer by trade and found your channel as I needed to wire up a new double socket in my house 🤣 I still havent attempted the job yet!

@@CStyler1989 thanks for the kind words. Hope you got your socket done!

Thanks for the comment. I barely have time to finish my own jobs!

It's almost finished. I'm over a year behind on the video uploads and took 6 months off but the end is in site! Thanks for watching.

With slates, the soakers stop it going sideways into the dormer as they turn up and overlap. The arrangement of slates means water will always run down hill eventually.

Outside was finished about 12 months ago so all good. I hired scaffold with one off fee, but ended up having it for over a year! I like to get my money's worth.

@@POUSEaroundtheHOUSE I'm surprised they remembered that you had it.....lol....well done on your build!

Slates are flat, so if water penetrates beneath them it can reach the the dormer cheek and drip onto the roof membrane below, especially in high winds. By doing each slate with a soaker if water penetrates underneath, it will run onto the lead and then onto the next slate and down the surface of the roof to the gutter. This isn't necessary with some tiles that have grooves or ridges as they will stop the horizontal moment of water and in that case, one strip of lead over the tiles top to bottom is sufficient. Unfortunately a lack of soakers is common hence why people get 'mystery' leaks around dormers and chimneys. Hope that helps.

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You don't need to go as wide a mine but I think I used 210mm lead

I am from Wales, just watch my other vids if you want to learn!! This is just DIY, not my day job. Thanks for watching.

No, that's how you fix slates to a roof. They have the batten beneath.

@@POUSEaroundtheHOUSE DO the nails holding the batten down go through, the Membrane?

Sorry, think I missed your point. I used 65mm roofing nails which go through the batten, and membrane down into the rafters to hold battens in place. Then your slates are fixed to battenwith 30mm copper nails so they don't penetrate the membrane. Even with the slates off the roof water doesn't get through as the membrane is pinched tight to the nails and the holes are beneath the battens so water never gets in. If slates are done right, water should never even touch the membrane. Hope that helps!

I used 30mm copper nails for the lead soakers as well.

@@POUSEaroundtheHOUSE yes it does, as long as it's done right is the important bit. I always see the Membrane gets nailed through, thus a potential leak, just thought it odd as I was wondering for when I built a shed. Thanks for taking the time to reply in detail.

Not sure what you mean? A headache?!

They were mine, I always recycle my old pants!

Outside was finished 18 months ago, a bit behind on the video editing! Thanks for watching.

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Please don't send it to all the roofers you know, they might laugh at me, how terrible 😂. Enjoy your apprenticeship, thanks for watching 👍