Fitting Roof Tiles Uk

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Fitting roof tiles uk. Make sure the tile lugs are seated snuggly onto the top edges of the battens. Next place your two tiles one on top of the other loose onto the battens without anything being fixed. Just short of the centre of the gutter. Setting out up the roof gauge set the first batten at eaves to allow the tails of the eaves course tiles to overhang the fascia by 40 to 45mm ie.

Once the top course of roof tiles is in place roll the ridgefast roll out centrally along the entire length of the ridge overlapping the product by 100mm at joints and fix it at approximately 2m centres. Depending on the size of the gap you may need to fit the tiles by cutting and bending otherwise you will need to fit a top course. Secure the underlayment with nails that are at least 2 inches from the edge of the roof. To begin remove the old roof tile.

Set the last batten at the ridge so that the ridge tiles will overlap the top course of tiles by at least 75mm. Roofing shingle tiles must be laid on a roof deck fixed in accordance with relevant british standards codes of practice. Plain tiles are also very common in the uk unlike the concrete or clay interlocking tiles above they have no interlocking and water proofing features at the sides at all and are usually overlapped twice by the tiles above a lot like traditional roofing slate double overlap common sizes are 266mm x 165 10 and a half inch x 6 and a half inch or there abouts. Compliance with british standards and nhbc guidelines is implicit in our product development and our product warranties provide additional peace of mind.

How to space a tiled roof firstly get two of your roof tiles and either two full battens or two offcuts of batten and place them onto the roof one above the other. Minimum deck thickness 12mm. Install the underlayment for the new roof tile next working with 10 foot sections at a time. Once the ridge batten is secured you can begin tiling the roof with concrete or clay tiles as usual.

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