You pay good money for someone to do work for you because it’s their specialty and they can’t even do it right. I do hope this video shows up in their inbox so they can see how they should have done it

It's so annoying that "professionals" can't be trusted to do a good job. It's alright when you have the skills to fix it, but where does that leave the rest of us? Would love to hear your advice on choosing and dealing with trades. Did you leave a negative review for these roofers for instance?

I hope you’re going to send this video to the company that did the roof!
You should’ve named & shamed them, but we know you’re too considerate for that!
Lovin’ your work!

It's a shame there are so many trades out there doing a poor job. I'd be embarrassed to leave a job looking like that...top work as always Andy.

Absolutely agree with you over roofers they always seem to be in a rush and cant be bothered to finish job off properly as they know they can get away with it as the average home owner cant get on the roof to  check it

This is exactly why I feel the need to do everything myself. I've literally just had the scaffold put up on my place & I'll be ripping the roof off this week to rebuild a new cut roof, felt, batten & slate etc then the only person I can blame for shoddy work is me.

I always cut the battens flush or 5mm post the barge board then fix a 2x1 latt/batten running up, that way thought not relying on I've fixing that's fixed in to end grain. Never had a single verge come loose and had to re do countless jobs done by cowboys. You can get good money for fitting them so they should be fitted to last.

Another great example of "if you want a job done properly....😏" if you can , diy! 👍😊

I normally use an old pair of socks on the end of my ladder so I don't have any material I might catch things on

love the lead dresser pall like the keystone cops up there, as for the gap just keep beating it it will dress in you can use a bit of heat to make it a bit more malleable

now we need kitten updates on every video

This is why I hate searching for people to do the jobs I want doing. How can you trust anyone's work nowadays?!

Re that gap if you have a bit of lead you could slide a bit under the main piece with a little bit bent down and trimmed to fit the hole

So THAT'S what the truncheon is for 😂

Did dry verge and ‘roofline’ for years when I lived in UK

Pretty straight forward, you just need to properly measure the appropriate projection on tile baton off barge board face or render and cut it at that, and the same with tile.
Mhard to believe ‘professional ‘ roofers left it like that.
I’m a bloody carpenter!  First dry verge job was a bit intimidating as any ‘new job’ is! But it’s certainly not rocket science 😂👍🏻

Pressed Roll on the Flashing....my next bands name!!

The main issue is once a "professional" does a shit job, you don't even want them to come back and make "good" because you just know it'll be half arsed or not good enough anyway. So then you're stuck in this awful position of paying someone else or doing it your damn self anyway! Nice one Andy.

If you have a new roof or replace 50% of a roof it has to be registered and checked by building regulations who do the checks from start to finish, this stops the cowboys. Insist on building regulations which cost very little really around £300 , if you sell the house with a new roof you could be pulled up. Not many roofers pay for building regulations because of the £300 but this is priceless for the customer.
We had a roofing company if you want to call them that who didn’t use building regulations for obviously reason demanded the money for the new roof which wasn’t compliant with building regulations , trading standards said we had to pay them even if the work was poor, we contacted a company who said don’t pay anymore money to them hold the final payment and get building regulations out to check the work, we did pay £ 300 to building regulations who found a long list of problems and I told this roofing company who didn’t come back or get the final payment £4,000 . But thankfully we was rid of the cowboys but left to get a decent company in to sort the building regulations snagging list and used the £4,000 and get it signed off with building regulations and the new roof on building regulations records with new roof. 👍🙂

Lovely video, thanks for knowledge and gorgeous Kittie's.

Mine looks horrific. Looking at getting the long single piece version and replacing myself.