Ondura corragated asphalt roofing sheets
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Topic: Ondura corragated asphalt roofing sheets
Posted By: DougG
Subject: Ondura corragated asphalt roofing sheets
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2019 at 3:54pm
| Was at Menards today looking at roofing , and seen these corrugated asphalt sheets , Anyone use these sheets on a house or barn ? Seems like a good thing with lifetime warrenty |
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Posted By: lentsch
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2019 at 4:31pm
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Didn't some company try this about 25 or 30 years ago and it was a total failure? Maybe was called Onduline? Never did understand "lifetime warranty". Couple of my neighbors got hung with some crap roofing-looked like asphalt coated cardboard. ------------- WD,D15,190XT,7000,8010x2,7060,8070 |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2019 at 9:44pm
| I had them on my roof, worked great, have to be careful so you don't pound the nails thru them. had them on my roof...well the backside of the house for many years. use their nails. they were torn off and discarded when the new roof was installed. nothing leaked, but the stockholders thought the roof should be replaced. PffffT! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2019 at 9:44pm
| I still have some left over new ones in the shed, i'll use them on something. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2019 at 9:51pm
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I think they are popular in England but I don't know if they would be better then steel roofing, hard to beat a roof that last's 50+ years. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 12:57am
| Well, they could work I guess. Look at all the rain that England gets and if they hold up to that they should work here. Run a info. check for the home owners response in England and see what hey say. Leon |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 5:53am
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There's some kind of 'tin with grit' shingles they sell up here, but I like the steel I got better. Some crazy Canuck makes rubber shingles! One ofthe 'This Old House' houses had them put on. What I do know is with the steel roof it's the LAST roof I had to put on, if I sell I get ALL my money back and it'll outlive me.. oh yeah, it's being tested as I type 4" of Shameless donations ALREADY !! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 5:54am
Be careful here, like trailer parks, they attract tornadoes...
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Posted By: Dave in PA
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 6:50am
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I put some on a lady's porch roof a few years back. Never could get the nails to stop leaking due to the fact of how they want you to nail them, and how our weather is with the expansion and contraction with temp changes. We put the left over pieces on my son's chicken coop, then coated it with a roof coat. works there and was cheap! lol Would I put it on a house, garage, shed, etc. NOPE!! |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 7:55am
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The video I watched discouraged walking on it and up here in Northern Michigan I have to get on the roof and shovel snow off it, so I would never use it. It sure did use a lot of nails. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 9:08am
X2 It delaminated and fell apart and I think they went out of business, so much for the lifetime warranty! I know of two people that used it.
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lentsch wrote:Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 3:00pm
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https://www.google.com/search?q=corrugated+asphalt+sheets&rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS627US627&oq=corrugated+asphalt+sheets&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow - https://www.google.com/search?q=corrugated+asphalt+sheets&rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS627US627&oq=corrugated+asphalt+sheets&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Seems everyone sells them / TSC / LOWES / Home Depot / Menards ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: lentsch
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 3:28pm
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Googled "Ondura reviews". Seems to be mixed opinions, but the way it's described it looks like the same stuff neighbors had that got soft in the heat and brittle in the cold and pretty much self destructed in a short period of time. I would proceed with caution. ------------- WD,D15,190XT,7000,8010x2,7060,8070 |
Posted By: *DougW
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 3:35pm
| Put unduline on uncle's barn. Didn't last long, leaked at nails. Absolutely can not walk on this product. Put on painted steel, done! |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 8:17pm
| When I lived in upper Michigan I realy loved the copper shingled houses. Last time I was back most of them were gone reshingled in asphalt. Really took the old character out of the houses. My house is the only thing left with shingles it'll get steel soon it's almost 20 years old and looks it. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 8:20pm
| Ill never put a metal roof on , so many around have done this and in 5 years faded badly,, looks like crap |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 8:37pm
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Had little shed on the ranch that in my day was for 4h steers or a extra horse not in the main herd. Had tin roof that dad got durning WW2. As light a gage of metal as I have seen as corrugated roof,but coated with tar. The tar dried and cracked and chipped. In about 60 years tar is long gone. But you use what you could find,and no idea how expensive it was. Enough bulls and horses rubbed on the whole shed gave up on it some years ago. But over 50 years for a make do material, not to bad. The big barn has galvanized tin that is right at 90 years old by all accounts I could ever get. The zinc is going away big time on it the last 20 years,
hope it has another 20 to give. Then some else can worry about it. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:33pm
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I've seen old houses and barns in Ohio with some kind of lap steel roofs that have been on for probably 100 plus years. No doubt they need to be painted every so often but other then slate or maybe tile roofs I can't imagine anything better then steel. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2019 at 11:52am
| Steel skinned our roof, was a system for houses. Similar to barn tin today but required a 3/4" underlayment and a roofing moisture barrier called Titanium paper no purlins. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2019 at 3:00pm
| The old standing seam roof is a lot heavier than the new standing seam roofing they use now. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2019 at 4:53pm
| So DMiller did you screw it directly into the plywood or the stuff they use particle board stuff? And is the shingles still on or did you strip them off ? |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2019 at 5:39pm
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"Lifetime" warranty is the life of the company. Lots of shingles put on that way around here, and when the roof went bad, the company has filed bankruptcy and started back up under a different name. Your claim is SOL. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2019 at 9:56pm
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I heard somewhere that a "Lifetime warranty" is 7 years, don't know if that is true or not but if so I'm on my 10th lifetime! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 1:27pm
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Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 5:12pm
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My dad put the Onduline on a workshop in 1976. I was recently looking at an picture (dated 5/82) of him working outdoors on the Minneapolis Moline tractor, I noticed the roof in the background. It was already looking worn. It was replaced with plywood & shingles in 1994. Should have been replaced 5 years sooner. So the lifetime was 13 years. It was trusses @24 inch, then 1x4 pulnins, then the Ondiline. 99% sure it was called Onduline, or Ondulene. Could the new Ondura be better?
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Posted By: lentsch
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 6:53pm
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Ondura is made by Onduline. ------------- WD,D15,190XT,7000,8010x2,7060,8070 |
Posted By: touriafuji
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2022 at 6:17am
| Ondura is a corrugated bitumen sheet for roofing trim, which is produced by saturating organic fibers with high-quality bitumen under high pressure and temperature. The strength of the boards is increased by the wavy profile of a special geometric shape. When restoring my lady's roof, I turned to an http://https://www.indytrojanroofing.com/" rel="nofollow - |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2022 at 7:07am
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Hey Doug Missed this Lane products sells roofing tins, the 3/4” tongue and groove was not a option but required and on 24” oc truss over the end roofs of house then a membrane called Titanium paper set and then the sheets screwed directly on. For older structures with roof sheathing is required to set membrane then 1x furring strips, at least 1x3, every two feet down the roof slope then tins. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2022 at 6:00pm
| Gottcha Dave , thanks |