A 1928 barrel tile roof, relaid
Ninety-seven years of clay came off by hand, went back on over a new two-ply system, and the street never saw a mismatched tile.
- Roof area
- 38 squares
- Tile relaid
- 4,100 pieces, 240 replaced
- Underlayment
- Two-ply hot-mopped
- On site
- 19 working days
The problem
The tile was sound. What sat under it was not. The house had been relaid once, in the eighties, over a single layer of felt that had gone to powder at the valleys. Water was tracking down the sheathing and showing up on a dining-room ceiling twenty feet from where it entered.
What we did
We lifted and stacked 4,100 tiles on the deck, stripped to sheathing, replaced eleven sheets, and built a two-ply hot-mopped underlayment with a new open valley in 16-ounce copper. Then the original tile went back, field first, with 240 replacements pulled from reclaimed 1920s stock rather than a new run.
The detail
The mortar at the hips was coloured on site against a dry sample of the original, which had weathered to a warmer grey than any bagged mix. Three batches to get it. From the street the new hip line is invisible, which was the whole point of doing it that way.
Next step
Get on the roof before you get a number.
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