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What are wind feathers?

Protecting your home from the elements is crucial, and ensuring that your bargeboard is in top condition plays a significant role in this defense. Discover how professional inspection and maintenance can prevent costly damage and extend the life of your roof, while also exploring the hidden threats of wood rot and delamination that could compromise your home's integrity.

A bargeboard is a finishing edge on one side of a roof surface, covering the gable end of the tiled roof (or thatched roof). The bargeboard is necessary to protect the material beneath the roof finish from rain, snow, and wind (side wind can lift roof tiles).

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  • Wood rot may be present in the wind feathers. This rot should be professionally repaired, after which the paintwork should be reapplied (in some areas).
    • Note: Wood rot can always be present in hidden places, in addition to what's reported! Wood rot can also become visible when removing layers of paint.
    • Wood rot may have been professionally repaired in the past, or wood rot may have been deliberately hidden, either professionally or not.

Periodic expert and proper maintenance is important!

Pay particular attention to the connections, corners and seams that they are sealed and moisture cannot enter!

  • Parts of the woodwork on the wind feathers may be delaminating . Delamination is the loss of cohesion between the layers of a multi-layered material. This can be caused by poor adhesion between the layers due to a manufacturing defect or a gradual loss of adhesion due to the effects of moisture or air on the adhesive, etc. Delamination of woodwork cannot be repaired; at some point, parts of the woodwork will need to be replaced. Therefore, the cost of replacing the woodwork should be taken into account in the long term.
  • The wind feathers can be covered with various materials: (volkern) material, metal sheet material. This covering makes inspection of the wind feathers difficult or impossible.
    • The advantage of this covering is that painting is unnecessary.
    • It is important to determine whether the upholstery has been installed in a ventilating manner!
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