Replacing a Sheet of Galvanised Steel
DIY tips from Handyman
Share itWhat you'll need
- Work gloves
- Drill and drill bits
- Multi-grip pliers (optional)
- Screwdriver or pinch bar
- Straightedge and pencil
- Hand brush
- New timber for battens (optional)
- Soft mallet (optional)
- Hacksaw
STEP 1
Measure up and calculate the number of sheets of roofing you’ll need, allowing for any overlaps. Remove nails and screws from the sheet to be replaced and from sheets where there is an overlap.
STEP 2
Wearing a pair of stout gloves, lift the free edge of the old sheet and slide it downwards. Sweep up dirt and debris and check the roof battens to ensure they are sound. Replace damaged, rotten timber.
STEP 3
Place a straightedge across the gap where the new sheet will go and mark the centre line of each batten on the roofing at either side in pencil, so you know the line that nails or screws must take.
STEP 4
If it is going under the roof ridge, use pliers to bend up the valleys in the corrugations. If the sheet is low-angled and overhangs the guttering, also turn down the lower section of each corrugation.
STEP 5
Wearing gloves, slide the sheet under the one it adjoins; push it into place. Drill fixing holes in the top of every second corrugation, using the pencil marks made at step three. Fix with nails or screws.
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