Old Wooden Fascia - CAN IT BE SAVED?

Time for me to become nostalgic about rotten wood! 🙄.
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[@paulthewitt]

I love the shots of you sat staring at the ‘problem’ It feels like a good 30% of my renovation time is spent doing the same! (With any 20% being spent looking for tools I put down a mere couple of minutes before but have somehow gone missing)

[@wayneleone]

I'm closer to 40% on the tools. 😀

[@monkeyboy8424]

You were blessed. I'm removing slates that are all stuck together with foam insulation applied directly from inside the attic, no felt. Thanks for all your excellent videos.

[@vivaldi1236]

Kudos to you for the attempt to Restore and then the judgment to Replace. 👏🏻

[@bertminderbertminder6741]

I do love the new intro with the drone flying over the roof and showing the beautiful landscape with clear blue sky.

[@kingofracism]

Where is that, doesn't look like England

[@stevewood7884]

If there's any roofers out there with a bit of spare time, please go and help Tim out, cheers 👍

[@rjg514]

Will you pay for the ticket LOL 😜

[@PB200559]

Top bloke, taking DIY to infinity and beyond. You are a legend my friend.

[@noelkealey]

To the roof and beyond!!

[@GentlemanH]

I agree. I have been through this many times - refurbish or replace - a difficult judgement call to make.

[@zedman442]

A DIY persons work always takes longer because they want it to be the best they can possibly make it. Good choice on renewing it all. Maybe make something out of the salvaged boards?

[@843thebear]

Great opportunity to install some Swift or Swallow nest boxes under the soffits whilst you have access.

[@dannymurphy1779]

Love your integrity Tim, remember what Leah says, 'You can do this!'

[@mmack3286]

Ideal father that every boy would want to give a good start out in life speaking on the behalf of a guy like myself who never had that experience but love doing stuff around the house like you Tim! Great inspirational kinda guy!

[@raeh9]

You made the right decision to replace the facias ,you can always use the timber else where, and I am glad you are going to get a hand, there is only so much one man can do, good luck Tim

[@myatix1]

Yup get a teamed roofers in would be a good idea! A nightmare of a job for just one person! I reroofed our 200m2 roof last year included putting in new trusses between the existing trusses to strengthen the roof construction! It’s hard work having felt flying around and lining up new batterns with the correct spacing etc... Good effort! Keep up the hard work!

[@grahamwilliams8407]

Me and my Dad replaced the roof on my 200 year old cottage. Concrete pan tiles, 3 different roof sections, 2 velux windows, 2 Chimneys to flash around a valley and a box gutter. I knocked myself clean out on day 1 from standing up under the concrete lip of the valley, got heat exhaustion twice over the 2 week span fell off a section into a pile of Lathes that had been pulled off and got punctured by 4 rusty nails (needed a tetanus booster) and got an infected leg from a flying ant bite. I will never EVER do another roof again!

[@bruceshaw2402]

A team of roofers is the way to go especially as we are about to go into the winter months , but I take my hat off to you I wouldn't have even considered doing it myself .

[@grahamecook6119]

Enjoying watching your vids - our approach is similar, finished the felt & batten on my Bristol project today - much more satisfying when you do it yourself

[@AzH1988UK]

This series is great. Good work

[@MrJohnnynapalm7]

Great work, Tim, and loving the quality videos - nice and clear instruction 👍

[@maggiesue4825]

Amazed how well those beams have held up!

[@Cablesmith]

This is bringing back memories from doing my own roof too 😩 such hard work. None stop graft

[@cogidubnus1953]

Yeah, I patched our tiled roof(s), stripped and repainted all our fascias, bargeboards and gutterings some thirty odd years ago, (did it all off two ladders and a hook-ladder!), but the old tiles will delaminate, cast gutterings rust etc and last year we needed some more extensive work done... seventy approaches, I've had a couple of heart attacks, and am not as fit as I was, so I got a pro in, a guy I'd watched doing a couple of biggish jobs round our way...he was brilliant...got some repointing done on our stacks while the scaffolding was up too, so it all worked out fine...

[@dann756]

I don't think I've ever in my whole life ever seen someone vacuum a scaffolding but the fact you're pushing "towards" with the nozzle regardless makes me believe you need to take a moment. It's great how you're doing this project and it's done with heart Just how every contractor would like to. There is no negativity here, you're doing an awesome job.

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Just didn’t want lead paint flakes all over my garden and neighbours drive. 😀

[@rozzerbob]

Awesome as ever Tim. A big task you're undertaking, can't wait for the end result👏👏

[@Iazzaboyce]

I would put some Cuprinol (or equivalent) clear wood preservative on those old rafter ends.

[@timbanwell1756]

Shave hook is that tool. I use it with a hot air gun, did my Victorian architraves, finish off with a light sand. Might have been quicker than yer sander

[@pahooper99]

Hahah love your last comment. But as always you are doing a fab job and it’s helping to show us some of the problems and complexities of do it yourself. Plus how to overcome them !! Keep up the amazing vids.

[@b1g1lz]

Lol, love the sudden uncertainty on the "if you can do it yourself "

[@mmack3286]

Perfect relaxing music to go along with a relaxing enjoyable craft

[@danmartin6515]

I agree I’m a roofer I wouldn’t put plastic on a old building like that with slates

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Good to know. 👍

[@cogidubnus1953]

@peter d With decent maintenance wooden fascia boards should last far longer than that - decent paint on them lasts us about ten years at least...our semi-detached house is a hundred years old and probably has the same fascia/bargeboards it was built with - We've been in over thirty five years and haven't replaced them, though last year I had the most exposed faces clad for the first time as a trial...first time we ever had scaffolding up actually...I always painted/maintained off ladders, but as seventy approaches, no more... Friends of ours are having to get old plastic replaced as sunshine over twenty five to thirty years has caused all sorts of brittleness...makes me wonder if the upstairs windows I had replaced in plastic were a good investment or not...Ain't going to worry too much at my age though!

[@gpower9572]

Really nice music to watch this too.

[@jandavis1523]

Daunting work but you are a champ! I hope you’ll be be able to use the fascia boards for an up cycling project! 👍🏼

[@paulmoy9736]

You're doing a great thorough job.

[@MrClem877]

Cut an inch off the top and fit an over fascia flyproof vent. Sorted!

[@chrisanderson8578]

You should buy a bahco paint scraper. They have a carbide tip and different shaped ends for intricate areas. Honestly one of best things ive bought for stripping paint. Just pulls it off easily.

[@alanshealy3061]

We us a lot of pvc trim in the US you can make any profile you need and you would never no it wasn’t wood .

[@TheDAMeaning]

"One last hug" 😂

[@no-oneshome3083]

The old facia and soffit could be cleaned up, planed, sanded, de-nailed (not in that order though) and some nice furniture pieces made. I would love wood like that to play around with.

[@yevgeniyshawyer2767]

I have the same facia. I decided to replace with triccoya

[@Eileen0656]

Hats off to you Tim. You are a workhorse. Where do you get the energy from?? Inspirational my friend!!!

[@radicalpaddyo]

Be interesting to try and find a use for the broken half thickness slates.

[@thomasedwards830]

Your a braver man than me that's a lot of work. Plus it's not like you can dip in and out of it you've gotta get it smashed out. Good luck wish you all the best with love the vids thanks for the content.

[@djcr9166]

Love the intro drone footage 👌

[@jonny7491]

Definitely not plastic on such a heritage property.

[@life_seeker6102]

I agree. UPVC looks out of place on a period property. Look at how out of place UPVC looks on other nearby older properties

[@TheRestorationCouple]

This is exactly my point but bizarrely I get 80% of folks saying plastic! 🙄 Surely the fact that much of the wood was just fine after 120 years is enough proof for me. Same for metal gutters.

[@connorjames6516]

Depends because you can get Black ash fascia boards or wood grain which don’t look to bad on a dated building (fascia and guttering fitter from Birmingham)

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Connor James you can of course but not in every RAL colour and visible fixings everywhere. There is a place for UPVC for sure, but not in a period house roof restoration. Don’t get me wrong, nearly every other non listed building around here would go for it.

[@connorjames6516]

Great video to watch👍🏻

[@jetskibuh]

Remember..... high work isn’t eye work!

[@dommer256]

My word you’re a grafter Tim.

[@garethd4948]

Love it. Stick to your guns - go for wood if you want to. My roof was finished this week. Sort of... Gutters and fascias still to do. Interested to see how you're going to restore the cast iron pipes - I still need to decide what to do with my downpipes.

[@barrydoherty636]

Great work

[@MrMultiH]

Your engineers could weld the broken bits of cast gutter btw!

[@jodirauth8847]

Why dont you install aluminum vent in the soffits.

[@pm1104]

What a task this is.........! It’s gonna take a while ....the job always takes longer than one expects!

[@rsg666]

Only criticism mate is this is way too big for just one DIY guy... I've had my own roofing business for 32 years and there will be hidden issues, I do wish you every success on this build. Wee bit of advice is to finish one side before stripping the other 👍. It can become mind blowing looking at everything that's still to be completed...take care .

[@JohnnyMotel99]

rsg666 my neighbour thought he do a similar job (he’s a top chippie) then he discovered the whole roof had sagged over the years...at that point he called in the roofers!!

[@rsg666]

@@JohnnyMotel99 this kind of project can open a can of worms... I'm not a negative person but with the rot he has exposed already there's got to be other issues....dry rot, wet rot, woodworm in the joists etc. Hope he has allowed for that.

[@phil-oq9id]

That scraping tool is a shave hook🤘

[@acidlumin]

Try peel away or Kling strip to remove paint like that. I think it might just be some sort of lime paste. Leave it for 24hrs and it’ll rip through 2mm of paint!

[@R0B0PR0P]

You have the heart of a lion......or the mind of a mouse for taking that on especially on your own. Now be honest, with all the time on your own up there how many times have you thought "how many benches can I make out of this scaffolding?"

[@TheRestorationCouple]

😂 quite a few I guess. To be honest I can’t get too excited about other projects until this is done.

[@rossmale8715]

Should of got yourself some of that exterior grade MDF,can't remember the name but robin clevitt uses it and it's the dogs danglies.

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Trycoya, or accoya is another option yes. Unfortunately not available I’m dimensions needed really, especially for the barge boards.

[@jamowallace]

...or you could get a team of roofers in...made me spit out my tea that! 😂

[@hsimpson6581]

I hope we talk about the Victorian sawtooth ridge cape on the house

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Surgically removed and waiting in the wings for their moment to crown the roof again! 👌

[@hsimpson6581]

@@TheRestorationCouple In America they are galvanized metal yours look like iron . W.F.Norman company in Missouri is our Last maker of them. America sucks at Restoration Getting anything is so hard as we have no craftsman left.

[@ask234b]

What make off extractor hose are you using thanks

[@paulthompson5416]

It was the right decision Tim 👍🏼

[@Zigg317]

I absolutely love your pages (KZbin/IG). On this project, I'm wondering if you've ever experimented with or thought of using a product like Bondex (which is made/available in the UK) to help prevent wood rot? I've been lucky enough to use it and have decided to start treating all of my new builds and renovations alike with this in any spot that end-grain is exposed, so any cuts, penetrations, etc. I don't have any long-term testing to see how it performs, but I do know it has not had any immediate negative effects on the wood. As you also seem to use Linseed based paints, both of these products together should protect against rot while still allowing the natural breathing that prevents water retention and then rot.

[@austinanderson8734]

Wonder which forest those old roof truss timbers came from. Interesting to think about the European timber market coming from the timber capitol of the US. Can't imagine lumber prices there.

[@clausiusuf]

This gent is as tidy as they come. I suppose this end of the house is over a sidewalk?

[@derekt7606]

Common sense. Rip the roof off fast and recover fast. Use the weather.

[@johnny6071]

Know anything about Britain and rain lol?

[@stephengriffith1605]

I am putting on a profile tile made of concrete what do I use to put them on the roof please

[@Flat2Rent]

At 10.00 it’s called a Shave hook

[@jodirauth8847]

I cant imagine how much all that slate weighs.

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Far less than all the other houses here who have replaced theirs with concrete tiles. 😀

[@joyardley1742]

Good man...I have spent all my adult life up cycling and repairing. It hurts when you can’t 😢 just one question...why not ask for help from some of us? I’m on the surrey Kent border?

[@sparkyprojects]

Don't you ned the half slates to stop the water coming through the gaps in the row above ? Or have you another solution ?

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Yes you do for the eaves slate to start you off. 👍 I just won’t be nailing to the fascia in the way it was built.

[@Suz9006]

How about some safety lines when you are up on that roof.

[@ajamespepper19]

What model of oakleys are you wearing

[@Jason52597]

Nooooo, just add insect mesh to the gap in the soffit

[@joeschlotthauer840]

You need an Amazon wish list, so we can buy you stuff...

[@jibcot8541]

I'm still not sure I would have replaced that roof yet, seems like it has another 50 years left in it to me, I'm probably just too lazy compared to Tim 😂.

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Lots of it was just fine. Although Enough leaks all over the rooms below and slates slipping in wind that it would likely be constant repairs for years, plus to repay all the rotten timbers properly would have needed scaffolding anyway.

[@mmack3286]

Since your up there and do once

[@yaxiongzhao6640]

What type of material are the roofing tiles?

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Slate.

[@malcolmcroll7556]

better to remove the first set of slates -it would help you to remove the other timbers ;

[@cliveclapham6451]

Lunch hatch 😁 😋 Team of roofers 🤔 nah your doing a great job. Think you should have a bump hat, while falling of a roof doesn't hurt until the last 2 inches, maybe it wouldn't hurt to have a bump hat, and fabricoble a chin strap. (The last 2 inches does hurt) obviously you are responsible for your own well-being and I'm not safetypolice, just mentioning in case it hadn't occured to you. Anyway great work, replacing with timber best option if you can find "decent quality" which is difficult these days.

[@jodirauth8847]

What do you use for ice and water shield

[@cjhification]

Slates!

[@TheRestorationCouple]

This pre dated the days of membranes and felts. We will be using a membrane under the battens. 👍

[@KEIRAN1996]

If your replacing slate with slate you need to use copper nails buddy

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Copper on the edges but hooks elsewhere.

[@jlewis1688]

Have you told the bat man your doing this job , I'm sure he would like to know , and come around to check if you have bats in your roof

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Not unless they are living in my office or spare room. 😀

[@colinevans1606]

The tool is a shave hook

[@simonruddy8265]

Hi buddy. Great work. Question, what have you arranged with scaffolding? Did you buy your own or rent? If you put it up yourself would you recommend doing this?? Ta.

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Paid a company. That includes 8 weeks then extra per week after.

[@alizcool1]

Definitely should've just replaced that wood it's so high up nobody can even appreciate them that high up

[@frank1847]

Hi Tim, How much was your scaffolding?.

[@TheRestorationCouple]

£1900

[@frank1847]

@@TheRestorationCouple Thank you, Tim.

[@ratchriat1716]

certainly this project is not a one person job tim specially the winter on the door.

[@Sir2ube]

Dear lord an here I am trying to build up the will to remove one annoying weed sticking its head out from the gutter.

[@Abid.Z77]

Where is the breathable membrane

[@hsimpson6581]

11:00 I do like the blue !!

[@mmack3286]

Be careful! I'd replace it all with new!

[@Napoleon-Blownapart]

Does your heart ever sink when you start a job and uncover hidden horrors?!

[@ramfrancisuk]

Hahaha - get a team of roofers in - wise words - I am inclined to think a nice metal roof would be easier

[@chasingsupercars558]

Use tlx gold felt.

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Why? We already have 150mm PIR.

[@chasingsupercars558]

@@TheRestorationCouple FOR my loft conversion i used tlx gold and 150 MM kingspan and then tlx silver before double plasterboards. the difference it made to heating my house was phenomenal. Cant have enough insulation.

[@mrb1864]

hahaha yeh you could get a team of roofers in lol :-) Just imagine only tool you need is a teapot and hardest labor be passing the cups of tea out the window :-P Quite a big project for 1 man . new wood seems best idea to me, I probably do plastic as I detest painting :-) but you a better man than me . Keep up the good work ...

[@JL-hn6hi]

Vacuuming at altitude. That’s a sign someone cares how things are done.

[@saltys5528]

cordless blower

[@TheRestorationCouple]

That would have worked great but didn’t fancy showering out garden and the neighbours in lead paint flakes.

[@saltys5528]

The Restoration Couple be alright

[@shaunbarns7994]

How come when you are so close to the main road there are no brick fences on your scaffolding. It seems far to open to me , some thing only needs to get away from you for a split second and your going to have a hammer, piece of cast guttering, or some other thing dropping in to the road or worse on to a person below. I know there have already been comments about the scaffolding but seeing it from the platform it just looks far to big gaps everywhere. I think you are doing fine work but I don’t think you’re scaffolding company did!

[@TheRestorationCouple]

There is no requirement as such but if you had seen later in the video we put debris netting up all the way round for that reason. 👍

[@trev1801]

HI it just doesn't make sense to me , you've gone to all that trouble and expense on scaffolding , then trying to save crappy old fascias , if you going to do the job do it right or leave it alone you will regret later you know it makes sense , regards D Trotter .

[@jodirauth8847]

The ivy did horrible damage to your home

[@TheRestorationCouple]

It was mainly a creeper, so it came off easy and didn’t get in to the stonework, just left loads of little ‘feet’ all over it! 🙄

[@garethneal82]

Osmo paint stripper is amazing. It would have saved you hours and hours. Paint on, have your lunch, scrape off.

[@trevorlockwood2356]

Please stop stacking your old slate flat, it puts them under pressure. Upright on edge is much better for them from a resale point of view. Still love what your doing and keep it up

[@TheRestorationCouple]

👍 Yes all stacked on the ends when down on the ground, just didn’t like the risk of them sliding down through the scaffold boards. 😬

[@almath9987]

Hard decisions 🤔 sure you will keep that wood and reuse on another project, bet it has a lovely grain and would look good varnished 👍🏻

[@Yaketyyak21]

You need some help with that roof,a lot of work on your own..

[@TheRestorationCouple]

They’re on their way! 👍

[@mikew151Manhattan]

Tim i love your vids and I have been following you since your pine floors were restored. BUT when are you going to invest in a Rotex 150 sander and retire that crappy Mak belt thing?!?!? That lead dust is SO toxic for you and your girls. ALL my festools are used ebays and they last forever with parts and fix it videos available when they fail.... You will never look back trust me

[@Harley-ir4er]

Very meticulous Guy. I wish there more of his standard in the building game.