Truly PVC Limited - Conservatory, Window, Door and Roof Parts
Description

Universal 'Dry Fix' Roof Ridge Kits

(3m, 6m or 10m in Black or Terracotta)

Mortar-free, ventilated ridge or hip!

Quick and simple mechanical fixing of almost all clay and concrete ridge and hip tiles. With its 20 year guaranteed, this kit fixes ridge tile securely while resisting water ingress and allowing the roof to breath. Available in 3 kit sizes for 3m, 6m and 10m ridges.

20 Year GuaranteeThe ventilated Ridge Roll provides the equivalent of 5mm continuous airflow and it?s malleable, crimped aluminium skirt with flexible ridge tile Unions are the key components that make this kit so effective - together, they offer long term security with a quality water seal.

Features & Benefits

  • Quick and easy to fit - no special tools or skills required
  • Fit under any dry conditions
  • Fully serviceable - easy to maintain even after many years
  • Ventilated ridge - allows roof to breath
  • Use on Ridge OR Hips - dedicated Hip Tray required
  • Effective year after year - resistant to freeze/thaw cycles plus thermal expansion and contraction
  • Long-life durable fixings - Stainless Steel and Nylon
  • 20 year guarantee - British Standard product you can trust
  • Supplied with unions and fixings - enough unions for standard length ridge tiles over length of roll. A ridge with tiles shorter than 400mm may require more unions.

The Easy Ridge F complies with BS 5250 and BS 5534 and is manufactured to DIN 4108/3. The dry fix system is recommended by NHBC.

CAN BE USED ON HIPS! EasyRidge is great on hips too! Just requires a dedicated Hip Try to be fitted under the ventilated roll. Take a look at our EasyRidge Hip Accessory Kit (link below).

What You Get

What you get in the kit

Ventilated Ridge Roll

Polypropylene mesh fabric with spine and malleable crimped aluminium skirt, which makes it easy to dress over contoured tiles. Underside of skirt has high butyl adhesive strips for sealing against roof tile.

Material Polypropylene and Aluminium
Length 3m, 6m or 10m
Width 300mm
Colour fringe and clips Black or Terracotta

Ridge Unions

Tough and flexible Nylon unions that you can use with almost all ridge tile, including angled and half round profiles of concrete or clay. Adjoining ridge tile sit on either side of a union up-stand and are trapped securely with 3 'ratchet' clips , the central one featuring a screw port to fasten to ridge batten with provided stainless steel screw. Enough unions are supplied for standard length ridge tiles over 6m. Additional unions may be required if ridge tiles are shorter than 400mm.

Material Nylon (union), Glass filled nylon (ratchet clips), Stainless Steel (screw fixings)
Length 304.8mm
Width 50mm
Height 20mm
Colour Black
Quantity 7 unions are supplied with the 3m kit, 13 with the 6m and 22 with the 10m. Each Unions is supplied with 1 x Large and 2 x Small Ratchet Clips plus Stainless Steel screw.

* Measurements taken when union flat.

Ridge Batten Straps

Stainless steel straps, designed to be folded over ridge fixing battens and nailed to roof truss rafters through pre-drilled holes. Supplied with approximately 45 x nails.

Material Stainless Steel (brackets), Stainless Steel (clout nails)
Strap Length 400mm
Strap Width 25mm
Quantity 5 x Ridge Batten Brackets are supplied with the 3m kit, 10 with the 6m and 17 with the 10m. A quantity of stainless steel clout nails are also supplied.
Fitting and Usage

The kit is supplied with fitting instruction to help you through the process but be assured, fitting is quick and easy compared to mortar fitting and other dry-fix systems.

  1. Install roof underlay and battens as normal but finish underlay 30mm short of apex on either side and don?t fit last batten
  2. Construct ridge fixing batten and fix to Ridge Batten Bracket before nailing to roof truss
  3. Fix top tiling batten with minimum 10mm air gap between it and ridge batten, then lay and fix the tiles as normal
  4. Unroll EasyRidge F over the ridge batten, ensuring coverage over top course of tile and secure with corrosion resistant staples or nails
  5. Remove release paper from the butyl adhesive strips and dress neatly onto the dry/clean tiled surface
  6. Prepare the Unions by lightly pressing one large fixing clip (in the central slot) and 2 smaller ratchet clips
  7. Place end ridge tile and insert the prepared ridge union under and between the ridge tiles.
  8. Loosely tighten the 3 ratchet clips down onto the union.
  9. Secure to ridge fixing batten with Stainless Steel screw through central fixing clip
  10. Pushing the ratchet clips into the union to secure.
  11. Continue process along the ridge