Velux apron damaged

[junglejim]

All of our velux aprons have damaged in the storm. One has sheared off completely (the malleable type for tiles EDW). We have some others that are flat which I thought would be better but are bent upwards and won’t reshape into position. 
 

Any ideas and best way to fix and long term solutions? 
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Edited yesterday at 09:42 by junglejim

[junglejim]

Advice from VELUX is that I need more overlap with tiles at the ends to hold it down. With these interlocking tiles (Sandtoft new rivius antique) and the wide gauge in not sure how to achieve this or whether there is any kind of workaround. Any advice greatly appreciated.

 Thank you

[Nickfromwales]

16 hours ago, junglejim said:

Advice from VELUX is that I need more overlap with tiles at the ends to hold it down. With these interlocking tiles (Sandtoft new rivius antique) and the wide gauge in not sure how to achieve this or whether there is any kind of workaround. Any advice greatly appreciated.

 Thank you

I’m on a job where the roofer installed 9 units, same type of skirt on a concrete tile.

 

Consensus was to bond them down with clear CT1 vs use the poxy little self adhesive strip that Fakro thought would be storm proof……

 

The roofer pumped a load of goop under them, not so much that the CT1 oozed out and became visible, and used lengths of 5x2 with weight on those to hold everything flat and tidy whilst the goop cured.

 

Afaic your fitters should have bonded these down, as you don’t need to be Einstein to see those stood no chance of staying in place by their own merit.

 

The one that’s broken off you’ll need to replace, then bond that down also.

[Nickfromwales]

@junglejim, if you need to bump a thread, just post in that original one and it’ll jump to the top of the “unread content” list for everyone to see it again  .

[ProDave]

I had similar with the flashing for my stove flue that bent up one corner in a storm.  My repair was to bond it down with appropriate goop.  Has not happened again.

[junglejim]

2 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

I’m on a job where the roofer installed 9 units, same type of skirt on a concrete tile.

 

Consensus was to bond them down with clear CT1 vs use the poxy little self adhesive strip that Fakro thought would be storm proof……

 

The roofer pumped a load of goop under them, not so much that the CT1 oozed out and became visible, and used lengths of 5x2 with weight on those to hold everything flat and tidy whilst the goop cured.

 

Afaic your fitters should have bonded these down, as you don’t need to be Einstein to see those stood no chance of staying in place by their own merit.

 

The one that’s broken off you’ll need to replace, then bond that down also.

Thanks that’s helpful. Hoping I can switch the apron out without taking out all of the tiles around the window. Keeping fingers crossed that just the lower ones will be ok. 
 

struggling to bend the edt back into position so may need to replace those too but would rather not if possible so any suggestions would be welcome.

 

 Also wondering if there’s any way to improve the overlap at the edges. moving the tiles across the whole roof isn’t an option but maybe some kind of metal strap screwed into the batten and extending over the apron.

 

 Thank you for all the advice. Racking my brain here trying to figure out solutions so any experience/advice very welcome 👍

Edited 7 hours ago by junglejim

[Nickfromwales]

Straightening these out with weight, and using something uniform (like the 5x2 timber weighted down) is the only cure for the others.

 

Swapping out the least amount of the damaged unit is obvs the way forward, and then to weigh and bond that down then too.

 

Once these are bonded down well, this issue will be gone forever.

[Nickfromwales]

Get the ruffled ones looking as good as you can, but don’t get lost in micro-detail here. You’ll likely look at them twice a year, if that.