How To Fit Ridge Tiles On A Slate Roof Uk

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How to fit ridge tiles on a slate roof uk.

Dry ridge vs mortar or sand and cement. Dry ridge conversion although this looks like a new roof it was actually about 10 years old the original mortar was weak at install and many ridge tiles blew off into the garden below and a public footpath during a storm. Roof cement is primarily used to hold roof tiles hip tiles and ridge tiles securely in place it also keeps out rainwater. After you have secured all of the tiles place the ridge tiles along the top section of the roof.

Dry ridge isn t always suitable or desirable especially on some period properties. Minimum slate headlap moderate weather this table of slate overlaps and roof angles shows common sizes of roofing slate and the recommended slope for the corresponding slate size. The ridge tiles have to seal the top of the roof and overlap onto the slates tiles on each side by at least 75mm 3 inches for slate and flat faced tiles this is achieved by using a fairly stiff 1 3 cement sharp sand mortar bed along the tops of the tiles slates. If your property s roof is in the green moderate part of the uk but you know of prevailing bad winds or weather you may wish to use the other chart instead.

How to fix ridge tiles to a roof traditionally ridge tiles were fixed using mortar to hold them in place.