Hello all,
I'm after a little advice.
My girlfriends house (built around 1930/35) has a tiled slate roof. We boarded out some of the loft a few years back, and from the inside of the loft you can see the sky through the gaps in some of the slate tiles. There is no layer of felt/plastic, and from the inside its actually hard to tell how the slates are event fixed to the roof (can't see any horizontal battens for example) - might all just be wishes and prayers
The roof doesn't appear to be leaking, but what we do get is a lot of dust/cr4p landing on everything thats now stored in the loft.
We're not in a position to redo the roof, but I did wonder whether we could get a couple of rolls of plastic sheeting, attach it to the rafters in the loft, to provide a bit of a "shield" over the top of the stuff we are storing up there. Wouldn't need to do the whole of the inside of the roof with it, just over the boarded areas. It seems like a "good" idea, but, as I have no experiences with rooves, and, its not my house, I didn't want to do/suggest anything that would be a problem.
I've watched a couple of "how to build a roof" videos online, mainly from companies that provide roofing materials, and there is mention of avoiding condensation, which, obviously the plastic sheeting might not be great for - but as the air would be able to move above the sheeting (between the rafters) there would still be lots of air movement.
If time/money was not an option that I'd personally want to strip the roof and have it done in whatever way modern rooves are done, they seem to have a layer of something over the rafter before the tiles are added, which I think would help keep all this dust and stuff off of all our boxes/cases.
Any advice would be appreciated, just looking for a very cost effective, easy to do myself solution, that won't screw anything up
Thanks in advance,
Rob