Dry Ridge System Retrofit - Advice and Tips

This is another roofing video on how to install the Dry Ridge System.

You can get different brands and styles of dry ridge but this video gives the general information on installing which is pretty much the same throughout, although some systems will differ slightly in the parts to the one being used in this video.

In this video i show a retro fit, meaning the ridges were already installed with a mortar bed which has failed. It needs to be removed and we are fitting the dry ridge in its place. The instructions do explain to fit the metal brackets under the top batten, but in retro-fitting this can be a pain as it takes a lot longer to remove all top tiles and the batten, which then needs to be refitted. There is no massive value in doing this but please feel free to do so if you prefer. So, i show how you can simply fit the metal brackets over the top of the batten instead, by using decent screws instead of the nails provided in the kit, screwed into each rafter this will be very solid and won't be going anywhere!

If the roof has a ridge board you can even fit it without the need for the metal brackets, just fit it straight onto the ridge board with 100mm screws - jobs a goodun!

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