perfect your shirt matches the house let's go around here in today's exciting episode
we look at roofs like that rusty roofs and how we can repair them without just
throwing them out my garage roof is really rusty and we're going to try and save it
the sun is shiny welcome to another exciting episode let's pull this roof off again shall we
okay so we got off to a great start in the last exciting episode we got most of this
half of the roof up and then underlay and this scaffold that this camera is sitting on right now
was set up by gaston and myself i'm on my own today but i think i think i'm going to
be fine because i've just got to pull off these one two maybe four or five sheets
do the same thing i did last time put the mesh down put the underlay down and then chuck them
down again now i've got one thing that is on the back of my mind and that is the rain
it's supposed to be raining this whole week so this is the only window that i have
so
so the main thing is get rid of this paper continue that mesh
and get the underlay down and the roof back on as well and then we can look at treating this
rust i've got this stuff called rust converter apparently you just paint it on and it turns
the rust to primer this sounds like a miracle product but um let's put the sunderland down first
no i have considered putting a skylight in here how much nicer would that be right but believe
it or not it's actually an issue when i'm filming videos i'm going to film a lot of videos in here
and if i have a light that big behind me well the camera needs to adjust like that
in order to get me in the shot and then everything behind me is all blown out like that i already
have this challenge with the windows behind me and that's why i often film in this direction
so the windows are going like that and then see i've got the black behind me
and everything's you can see everything so unfortunately we need to put a roof on here
and because i'm cheap we're going to put the same roof back on
so
i've got to admit one thing a lot of people said in the last video which way you should put your
paper your building underlay they should say you should do it not vertical the way i've done it but
horizontal the opposite direction of the roofing iron and i agree you should that's a lot better
and like people pointed out if the roof leaks it's going to hit their underlay and it's going to go
down rather than potentially going under the lap and in but the reason i made the choice was
it's a lot easier to put down i'm taking up sheets at a time and then i can put underlay
down one strip at a time if i went across the way i would have to take the whole roof side off
and then go end to end and put the whole roof down there's a bunch of us working on this together
then yeah we could totally do that but this is my house i'm working on it by myself
so i'm not going to do that having said all that down here where the roof gets flat
definitely have to go horizontal on that one i'm getting away with it up here because
the roof is on an angle so the chances of the water tracking in and going sideways are less
and as long as i paint this roof nice get it all sealed i should be good
underlay underlay underlay underly underlay on let's put the roofing on before this rain arrives
if you ever do this job and you're pulling old nails out or old screws out make sure the new
screws that you replace them with are thicker in diameter that way you're not going to get a leak
in the hole because all you're doing is making the hole a little bit bigger for the new screws
if i got a screw the same diameter as the nails i pulled out there's a higher chance that it'll leak
and you've got to be careful that you don't over tighten the rubber washers because you can easily
split them or just spread them out and then they won't seal the joint i've got to put this roof on
last sheet mike last [ __ ] not better
mike is my next door neighbor and he's been living in that house since 1962
and he's a builder was a builder my house is this one here obviously and it's had one
renovation in the time since it was built since 1962 and mike did that renovation in the 70s
so i've been asking all these questions about my house i'd love to film him but he's old-school
he doesn't want to be on camera fair enough so yeah he's watching me pull the roof off before
he's still living here it's crazy he built that house as well
well so far so good not a drop but i knew that come on
perfect it was raining all last night
that is dry just a stain i have a feeling a mechanic used to own this place we just got
the other half to do now but i need to make a flashing first we'll get a flashing mate
so clearly we have a rotten weatherboard here which i've known about for a while
and that's why i got those weatherboards from my friend raymond so now i can cut that out and put a
put a fresh one in there but first we're going to try this rust converter on the roof it's been a
few days now the weather's been great had a little public holiday in in between so it's dry up there
so let's go try the rust converter i have to say i'm pretty skeptical like the idea that you can
just paint it on and then it converts rust seems like some kind of magic but uh let's give it a try
apply to any lightly rusted or correctly prepared metal surface to neutralize rust
and convert it to a tough primer and one easy step this is an ad i bought this rust converter
so if it sucks i'll let you know let's try it out child proof here we go
so
okay you can see here where i've just applied the rust converter it's got a kind of bluish tint to
it and then here is one of the areas where i first applied it and you can see it's gone all clear
and it almost looks as if we've cleaned it with this rust converter but i can still see rust
so it's interesting up here
it's dried off a bit as well and then over here the rust has gotten darker so interesting
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that i've put on now and hopefully it's started to darken that's the aim of the game and then we
can put a primer on top first i want to film my intro hopefully there's a rusty roof around here
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all right after 24 hours since the second coat of rust converter after a haircut
after an application of sunblock let's see just how good the rust converted it
yeah look how dark it is still got a rusty color to it but it is sort of darker on the
sides oh look at that interesting so where there isn't rust it's left that
sort of yellowy yellowy coloring there but where there is rust it's very dark that's what we want
all right so i had to look on wikipedia how that rust converter works and this is what it says rust
converters are chemical solutions or primers that can be applied directly to an iron or iron alloy
surface to convert iron oxides rust and brackets into a protective chemical barrier
these compounds interact with iron oxides converting them into an adherent black layer
that is more resistant to moisture and protects the surface from further corrosion i mean that's
basically what it said on the bottle i'm happy with it that's effectively become a primer
but what i am sitting on here is some metal shield primer from dulux and they gave it to
me so do likes kindly hooked us up with this paint and they didn't pay me or anything but they gave
me this paint for free and i'm going to use it to prime the whole garage so we'll eventually have
the garage painted the same color as the house and we're going to figure out what color that is
on the garage so yeah it's nice to have the garage be a testing ground for the house
much tighter than i thought
so although this is just a shed this is pretty typical of new zealand houses like my house has
the same roof as my shed no different completely exactly the same when i'm looking around here
right now pretty much every roof i'm looking at is corrugated iron just like this i think
there's oh there's like a concrete tile but most of the time it's corrugated iron in new zealand
ah so there we go rust converter is kind of like a primer and then i'm adding this primer this this
roof should be pretty invincible i hope you've enjoyed this episode of uh scott brown painting
in the next episode i'll probably use some timber again
doing a great job jess thanks you're doing a great job
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