Retrofitting Sarking Under Tiled Roof

Roof sarking is a protective second skin under your roof installed when building a house doing home extensions a home renovation or roof restoration.

Retrofitting sarking under tiled roof.

Reinstall the battens once you re done fitting sarking sheets. 2 use blue foam straight across the rafters paint with acrylic paint. Dismantle all roof battens to enable you to install sarking beneath them. Sarking under tiled roofs.

Reflective foil roof sarking improves thermal performance by shielding the home from up to 97 of radiant heat when combined with an air space helping to provide a more energy efficient and comfortable home. Now you can lay the sarking sheets. If you re just changing them. This video answer the question what is sarking.

Do you need to sark a tiled roof well technically no however in some areas its use is mandated due to the new bal ratings for bushfire prone areas as well as cyclone prone areas. Then there are some councils that mandate sarking and believe it or not it has been my experience that some banks demand sarking use for homes they make loans to. Sarking is pliable laminated membrane well that s how bradford describes anyway. Unfasten all the roof clips that hold the roof tiles down.

Remember that blue foam is not a new deodorant. This will give you space to lay the sarking on. What is roof sarking. You may use a staple or nail gun to fasten them with the rafters.

Roof sarking is a pliable laminated membrane that is positioned under your roof during installation by the builder and is rolled out in sections either parallel or perpendicular to the eaves with an overlap between each layer. Rebed the roof tiles to cover the roof surface. To sark or not to sark under roof tiles this is a question that many people ask when building or re roofing a home. Lay the sarking sheets on the roof cavity with care and precision.

Reinstalled original roof tiles and new tile clips rebed all ridge capping repointed all ridge capping with flexible pointing water tested to ensure no further water leaks installing heavy duty roof sarking to the roof cavity is great for added protection from the elements and reducing moisture in the roof cavity. Thanks for the suggestions. To do this you will have to remove the capping on the ridges. Then proceed with the following.

Reattach and realign the ridge capping.