Rain this year is coming way too often. A few days of sunshine then a week of rain and low temps. Showing a few projects as well.
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Rain this year is coming way too often. A few days of sunshine then a week of rain and low temps. Showing a few projects as well.
Sorry to hear you lost some peppers. I lost a large number of rare peppers to flooding this season. I had a hot dry spring and then a very wet cool summer, with rain for days and days on end and then maybe a day or two break before ten more days of rain. Spots of my garden have been underwater for over a month now and just won't dry out. I'm keeping a few things dry, in buckets and whatnot. Heavy rains shouldn't negatively affect tomato fruit set in most cases. Tomatoes have perfect flowers and the anther with the pollen is quite close to its stigma/style. If there isn't much wind, shaking your tomato plants can help with pollination / fruit set. Your garden looks awesome! Hope things dry out soon for both of us! Cheers!
I think it the Skylight its a velux you should be able to open it right up and take the tile off around it but before you do look up velux windows/velux dachfenster. You will be able to see how it should look when fitted properly with the flashing and all. but you will be able to see how its fitted so you can take it out my roof is a lot like that. in the UK about every 3rd row was nailed or screwed.
Heya Jay
Here in Holland the tiles are not secured. With storms sometimes they come down ;o)
The plastic foil is being used here too the last few decades. In fact nowadays there are to be 2 layers of foil/folie. 1 on the outside just under the tiles which is watertight but breathing so condensation can evaporate, one just under the inside facade (plasterboard or whatever) that is water-tight & not breathing. But these are regulations thought out by technicians over the last few decades. If you are building houses to sell you need to build conform these regulations, but hey, you are the owner ….
Tiled roofs without decking are not used for living spaces/ houses here, but it is done because of insulation and critters.
These Velux windows have sets of flanges you can order. You put the tiles over the flanges, they will be water tight.
Might be a bit of a search to find the right one, but there should be somewhere a sticker on that window that tells you the serial number. I know because I ordered once a solar-powered roll-curtain for a dachfenster (lol) which was NOT a Velux. so I needed something which would be smaller that day-size. You can find the things you need to know on their website.
You'll probably need the EDJ and maybe BDX sets. I think I only installed the EDJ, and that'll make the roofing tiles go over the set, so all water is directed around the window and onto the lead or skirt.
About doors & windows in walls : Most people in construction here will argue that closing the seem between the wood & the wall will prevent moisture evap and rot down the wood quicker.
Here in Holland in the olden days windows & doors were always recessed into the wall, with what is called here a "neg".
This reduces the rain/water issues a lot. With these modern construction methods & materials it's a different story ;o)
Cheers !
The rainy season, a milennial problem always for farmers, either too little rain or too much but it seems only occasionally just the RIGHT amount of rain! Talking this thursday to a lady that's from a nearby ranch community, the day was cloudy and I said well a bit more rain won't hurt at all, more corn for people and livestock, she answered back it was too late, to favor the farmer rain would have to begin in at least late may, continue uninterrupted until july, no rain necessary in august. Wow there is nothing you can do Jay, that job ya did looked all right to me, but plastic foil being used to roof with? Call me ol'fashioned but wouldn't shingles or ceramic tiles be better,…then again its new technology made to simplify our work and lives. So sorry to hear about the poblanos getting damaged with the rain, and the tomatoes, for sure those plants are LOADED with flowers, but like ya say the jerusalem artichokes are looking great and the yellow squash as well.
Send some of that water my way mate! I envy you the ability to fix that roof – I wouldn't have a clue where even to start.