Dry ridge and dry verge in Sleaford

Look along any older roof line after a hard winter and you will often see the same story: ridge mortar cracked, chunks missing, grey crumbs in the gutter. Mortar on a ridge or verge is always working loose, because the roof moves and the mortar does not. A dry system ends that cycle for good.

How a dry system works

Dry ridge and dry verge hold the tiles on mechanically, with screws, clamps and caps, instead of bedding them in mortar. There is nothing up there to crack, nothing for frost to get into and nothing to wash out in a downpour, so the fixings keep doing their job in weather that would be chewing through a mortar bed. Once fitted, it does not need re-bedding every few years the way mortar does.

Why it suits roofs around Sleaford

Sleaford stands in open fen country on the River Slea, and the wind that crosses that flat ground works ridge lines hard. Wind rocks mortar-bedded ridge tiles by fractions of a millimetre, thousands of times a storm, and eventually the bed lets go. A mechanically fixed ridge has no bed to let go of. On exposed slopes at the edge of town and on older Sleaford roofs alike, that is exactly the weakness worth removing.

Fitted the way we fit our own

Dry-fix ridge and hips are what we put on our own photographed re-roof project, so we are recommending a system we choose when the roof is ours to build. When one customer asked us to install a dry ridge and dry verge system, we walked them through the benefits before they committed rather than after. You get the same treatment in Sleaford: a free visit, photographs of your existing ridge and verge, a plain explanation, and a price in writing that does not move. The finished work is guaranteed for five or ten years depending on the work.