How To Repair A Slipped Roof 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.

How to repair a slipped roof slate.

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. 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. You ll need a tile ripper. The top edges of the slate are trimmed to form shoulders.

This will pull out or snap the retaining nail. Examine the fixing holes in the slate. Quick video i made when i was fixing the roof last week. You hook it over the retaining nail and either pull down sharply or use a hammer.

Lead bib slate repair if the roof hasn t got too many mistakes a good method of repair is the lead bib it s simply a section of code 3 or 4 flashing lead cut large enough to sit under the faulty slate or bad overlap to make it waterproof and the repair invisible. Slates or tiles reaching the end their life. This is a specially designed tool which slides under the tile. If the slate has started.

Many slipped slates due to the original nails now rotting away completely strips of lead approx 12. If the slate has started to flake away and thin around any of the holes this. How to repair a slate roof removing a tile this is easy with the correct tool.