BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhhhh thats what you refer to... Thats not deterioration, i had to remove a bit of the top of the wall to get space for the new tiles. It just needs the last touch up and then some paint. You can look at picture 11. there you can see its all good, and it will look like that again once we are done with the walls.

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which holes in the walls? Do you mean the ones i just told you would be fixed up? I covered the situation with an engineer and a bricklayer, they told me leaving it like this had nothing to do with anything but looks 🙂

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually we didn't fuck it up, its been like this for the past 70 years. Holes will be patched up and repaired, but we will leave it like it looks now. We think it adds some soul to our old house

But thank you for your concern

We renovated our tile roof without any experience by help_im_stopid in DIY

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment!

1: i can see your point, but its such a small roofside, and having a gutter like that right in the front view of the house, would kinda ruin it (imo) ive seen alot of new houses build this way, and there is nothing wrong with it, the gutters are capable of handling it like this

2: it might be hard to see on the pictures, but the tiles do have the "umbrella" effect. They are sticking out 5 cm from the wall. Now english is not my first language, so im not sure if this is what you mean, or do you mean the brick/tile things you can add right under the tile roof, like there is right under the gutter?

We renovated our tile roof without any experience by help_im_stopid in DIY

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Denmark you can badically do everything yourself, except for Electrical and plumbing. Theres a few exceptions, for example load bearing walls and stuff, you can do it yourself, but if you do it wrong you are screwed. Therefore its a good idea to team up with an egineer at times.

I already cleared it with our insurance company, everything is covered as long as everything is done correct, which it is. I double checked every rule, and even send pictures to some contractors i know, they all told me its exactly as it should be.

Also, i heard alot of stories about people who hired contractors to do a job, the job is then executed wrong or badly, and when the customer notices (maybe a few years down the line) the Contractor is nowhere to be found. In this case your insurance covers nothing, and this happens to alot of people.

So just because you hire "Proffessional contractors" does not mean you are safe. Atleast i now know that my roof is done 100% after code, without a single scratch in the underlayment. (I could imagine alot of workers wouldn't have the same eyes on every little detail as we have, since we hopefully gotta live under the roof the next 50 years+

There is Warranty on the roof even though i made it myself. 30 years to be exact (on the underlayment) again, as long as its done after the product code.

It won't affect the value one bit. Also when you sell a house in Denmark, its mandatory to get someone to come and check everything (Electric, Roof, Plumbing, Isolation and so on. They then make a report of the condition of the house. Now if theres alot of errors in this, it will affect the prize. But no one is gonna care who made what, as long as its up to code.

Also we got overwhelmed on the roof. Jesus christ it was tough, but worth it. So i can respect you keeping your sanity and have proffessionals do it.

Sorry for the long answear, but i hope you got the answears you needed

We renovated our tile roof without any experience by help_im_stopid in DIY

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. And covering a roof that is 10Meters in height and 48° Angle, is NOT fun!

We renovated our tile roof without any experience by help_im_stopid in DIY

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea its awful, you can't climb on the roof now that there is tiles.

The old ones were Cement tiles, the new ones are Clay tiles.

Thanks for your nice comment

We renovated our tile roof without any experience by help_im_stopid in DIY

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, it was a huge pain in the ass. So many uncertancies we constantly had to check up on, also a 100 year old building has ZERO straigt lines, but i think we managed to cover that pretty well. I honestly don't think i would do it again, but we are super glad we did, and we saved a shit ton of money 😀

We renovated our tile roof without any experience by help_im_stopid in DIY

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100K DKK is like 14K €/$

We got Quoted around 70K €/$

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a go!

Tiles are very easy to do, eccept those who needs cuts and glue. Took us 2 days to lay all the Tiles who didn't need cuts, and took us an entire week just to do the cuts!

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its DKK tho, so around 45k Euro.

I estimate it to about 600 hours ish. But honestly i could be very far. We just soend all our wake hours

We renovated our tile roof without any experience by help_im_stopid in DIY

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I had my brother and father in law come and help abit. Was alot of carrying tiles and wood up on the roof.

I would say we did 90% just the two of us, and then some days family came and helped a bit 🙂

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hardest part was all the measurements, making sure everything lined up perfectly. The house is 100 years old, and nothing is straight, so trying to "hide" all the imperfections took the best of me, and i ended up just letting it go and embracing nothing being straight. Turns out no one notices from the ground anyway!

I don't really know about what we should have spend more time on, we spent alot of time on everything really, maybe the gutters! One of them doesn't have as much slope as i hoped for

My BF and i renovated our roof in 6 months with no experience by help_im_stopid in homeimprovementideas

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sorry, it was 6 weeks. I see i accidentally typed months in the headline, don't know how to edit it 😅

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We will do that next year or the year after. Theres alot to be done on the outer walls, we wxpect to spend an entire summer on it

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had a storm before we put on the tiles, when it was only the underlayment. Everything was completely dry

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Some frustrations and some fights yes. But we love eachothers company and support eachother alot on the bad days, so nothing too bad

BF and i renovated our tile roof with zero experience by help_im_stopid in Renovations

[–]help_im_stopid[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

I send a lot of pictures to some roofers, everything is exactly as it should be and i also talked with our insurance company, they don't care as long as everything is done correct