How To Repair A Slipped Roof Slate

You hook it over the retaining nail and either pull down sharply or use a hammer.

How to repair a slipped roof slate.

Quick video i made when i was fixing the roof last week. Tile and slate fixing procedure with roofing tiles it s common practise in large parts of the uk to fix every third row of tiles with clout nails starting at and including the bottom row every third row after that including the top row and they should be nailed with either galvanised steel aluminium or copper clout nails. Many slipped slates due to the original nails now rotting away completely strips of lead approx 12. Scottish slate is no longer quarried so repair relies on stocks of reclaimed slate.

This allows individual slates to be swung to one side to allow access to remove and replace any broken slate without disrupting those surrounding it. The top edges of the slate are trimmed to form shoulders. Examine the fixing holes in the slate. Slates or tiles reaching the end their life.

How to repair a slate roof removing a tile this is easy with the correct tool. If the slate has started to flake away and thin around any of the holes this. Normally friction alone is enough to hold the lead bib in place. To replace an isolated slipped slate if the slate has twisted rather than completely slipped down the roof this indicated that only one fixing has failed.

To remedy the effects of slates or tiles reaching the end of their life span the roof should be stripped down to the rafters and a new underlay should be installed and then rebatten and finally recover the roof. This is a specially designed tool which slides under the tile. If the slate has started.