Muddybigdog wrote:

Is that around South Moulton area? As it looks familiar.

Yes it is

We were working just outside of Knowstone  Clayton.

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Moo wrote:

Only just discovered this. What a cracking thread.

In a previous life I had a construction company specialising in converting old barns. Loved what we created out of what we started with.

You have some real skills and your work looks fantastic. Great job.

^^^
Thank you Moo

I bet you created some awesome barn conversions, especially the before and after pic's  Clayton.

1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.
Keeper.

L110CDL wrote:

Not what you think

This method is Called " Dressing the roof " It's for getting all the different types of moss off the roofs and at the same time is to get the " dead " ends off to help the roof last longer and then to level out any dips/valleys so that the water does not concentrate in that one area and then the roof will ware more evenly

So the first pic is what the roof looked like before i started, i forgot to take one of the whole roof ........................




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The next pic is to the right hand side of the ladder and has been dressed, you can see the difference what it has done and the dark patches are were the moss was holding in the water and not doing the reed any good, if left it will rot out that part very quickly ..........................




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The next pic is the whole of the back roof with the dressed and the part of the roof waiting to be dressed, you can see by the lightness of the dressed part it is drying already ...........................................




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Now to do all of this work, you need specialist tools In Devon we call them Drifts, other parts of the country call them by different names

The first pic is of my right hand drift, as you can see i have modified it to cope with the toughness of the reed by putting some metal on to protect the wood ............................................




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The next pic is of my left hand drift, not used to much and sadly not maintained as my right hand drift is .......................




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I hope you have enjoyed this glimpse into what i do

By the way, all of the moss and dead ends of the reed make good compos, so we have always people after it

So moving on 6 years, time does fly as it only seems like not to long ago we did this

We came back to re-ridge this property about 2-3 weeks ago, sorry there is no before pics but both sides were in a pretty bad way and there was even more moss on the roof, so we did what we call now " a belt n braces job ".
This is where we dress both sides of the roof, full re-ridge, spray both sides of the roof with a moss killer and wire net both sides as well

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Front




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We had to re-thatch the porch as it was to far gone to repair




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All done




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All finished




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 Clayton.

1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.
Keeper.