Lead tray

[nod]

My friend Vash turned up this morning and made me a lead ray in the back of his van 

Very skilled 

[Conor]

That's sick.

[joe90]

That’s an art, lead welding, I have tried it, very difficult, 👍

[Gus Potter]

1 hour ago, nod said:

My friend Vash turned up this morning and made me a lead ray in the back of his van 

Tell us he did coat the underside with patination oil as well as on the top.. pleeeese!

[nod]

No

i did 😁

[Gus Potter]

1 hour ago, nod said:

i did

Nod.. love your style, ta.

[Gus Potter]

1 hour ago, nod said:

No

Oh Nod I made a post about a bath trap.. any ideas?

[nod]

I can still remember the plumbers doing the lead work 

Now the roofers do this 

[Canski]

And many are better than the plumbers ! 

[Gus Potter]

5 minutes ago, nod said:

Now the roofers do this 

Ah.. appreciate your frustration. That chimney cap leadwork is great.. lifts your spirits.. then.. next day your "baw is burst"

 

You'll know that lot needs lifted, the battens and vapour barrier sorted etc.

 

I get it too, one day great work from the builders.. next day they have put the wrong brain  when going to work.

 

But we all have "off" days!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[joe90]

9 minutes ago, Gus Potter said:

But we all have "off" days!

Yes but no excuse incompetency .

[Gus Potter]

6 minutes ago, Canski said:

And many are better than the plumbers ! 

Good point.

 

In the "very old" days before my time we had lead pipes.

 

When I started out in the construction industry we worked a lot on renovating tenenments and so on. The apprentices were taught how to marry up new copper with the old lead.. what metals you could join and the ones to avoid.. the Nobel series  (Galvanic series) was all taught. Part of the course module was also lead work as they has to do the lead flashings where the pipes went up through the roof for example. That was part of the requirement to become a professional Plumber and gain the required acknowledgement from the Professional body.

 

Now the modern plumbing profession has become more restricted. But now they have to be certified for all sort of things such as direct (mains pressure) water tanks.. they can't do it all.. but you can see how the plumbing trade has moved away from some of the traditional skills that they needed in the past.

 

 

 

 

 

[nod]

39 minutes ago, Gus Potter said:

Ah.. appreciate your frustration. That chimney cap leadwork is great.. lifts your spirits.. then.. next day your "baw is burst"

 

You'll know that lot needs lifted, the battens and vapour barrier sorted etc.

 

I get it too, one day great work from the builders.. next day they have put the wrong brain  when going to work.

 

But we all have "off" days!

This is on a site with 33 staff in the site office Five quality control guys wandering around 

Leas slate on our first build 

No reason to change 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dave Jones]

10 hours ago, nod said:

I can still remember the plumbers doing the lead work 

Now the roofers do this 

 

Klober have new closers to go with the dry vallys, very nice they are too. 

 

https://www.roofgiant.com/grp-valley-troughs/dry-valley-closure/

 

 

[PeterW]

10 hours ago, nod said:

I can still remember the plumbers doing the lead work 

Now the roofers do this 

Not quite sure how they have cocked all that up but it looks messy !!! Right hand side membrane is under the tray at the bottom but should be over the edge of it. Tray should have its own underlay too - can’t see if that’s been done. Hard to see too if battens run to the edge of the tray correctly.

 

another 5 mins spent on that and they would have done a decent job.

[Onoff]

Met an old boy on site once who's lead welding was amazing. He was welding lead caps atop concrete plinths. I asked for his card and he just said "Ask for Ted the Lead, everyone knows me".

 

Never found him again. 

[Mr Punter]

That lead must weigh a fair bit.  What is underneath to support it?