Roof tiles - Clips and edging mortar

yop

Folks

We are replacing my Dads felt and tiles in the next 2 weeks. Not knew to felting, battening or tiling but its probably 10 years since we last did them.

We had to replace outside rafters on both gables and one thing which we thought which might have caused the rafter to rot was the concrete on the edge which the tiles were bedded in.
There was probably 3" of concrete under each tile on the edge, then there was a black mortor plastered to "face" it.
Now have things changed in the way the edge are done? I know there is an edge strip but Dad lives on the Atlantic edge and an edge strip will end up been ripped off so he want to use the mortar fix.

Also, he received the tiles this week, the last time we did a roof we had metal tile clips, this time they delivered plastic.
Are these plastic clips now the norm? Are they reliable and as strong as the metal?
OR were the supplier been cheap skate and should have sent us metal?

Thanks

L driver

kristyle wrote: »

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Hi,
Kristyle were you on your way to bed after a good bank hol sunday outing!:rolleyes: Poor old yop is online trying to find out.
Yop I'm using roof tiles in a pretty exposed area and got a roofing/cladding company to form an edge trim, tile company had supplied a plastic trim that you wouldn't find on a dog house. The aluminium folded trim is very strong and smart and sort of squeezes over the edge of the tile. Hope that helps.

yop

L driver wrote: »

Hi,
Kristyle were you on your way to bed after a good bank hol sunday outing!:rolleyes: Poor old yop is online trying to find out.
Yop I'm using roof tiles in a pretty exposed area and got a roofing/cladding company to form an edge trim, tile company had supplied a plastic trim that you wouldn't find on a dog house. The aluminium folded trim is very strong and smart and sort of squeezes over the edge of the tile. Hope that helps.

Thanks for that. Did u get one of the main tile companies to make the edging?

The big concern that he has is that the wind will (and by heck its strong when it gusts on the West Coast) bend out the plastic from the tile and leave the edge of the tile exposed.

yop

kristyle wrote: »

hello,
you can search these information on line..

As opposed to boards been......:rolleyes:

Have a nice day :cool:

L driver

yop wrote: »

Thanks for that. Did u get one of the main tile companies to make the edging?

The big concern that he has is that the wind will (and by heck its strong when it gusts on the West Coast) bend out the plastic from the tile and leave the edge of the tile exposed.

Yop,
A fairly big roofing and cladding company based in oranmore and the edge trim is folded aluminium. The big tile company supplied the crappy plastic trim. The comp in oranmore has samples, bring 2 tiles with you and they will show you which trim and I would say could form a trim to your needs. No connection to this company, just my roofer told me about them when he saw the plastic trim.

yop

L driver wrote: »

Yop,
A fairly big roofing and cladding company based in oranmore and the edge trim is folded aluminium. The big tile company supplied the crappy plastic trim. The comp in oranmore has samples, bring 2 tiles with you and they will show you which trim and I would say could form a trim to your needs. No connection to this company, just my roofer told me about them when he saw the plastic trim.

Is it one continuous trim or is it a trim per tile?

I have seen on the Roadstone catalogue that the plastic trim is one piece for the tiles but for the slate they have indivdual trims for each slate, so the fit is much better.

L driver

Yop,
It's a trim in 3m lengths, off top of head €6/m+FAT:). it folds down kinda like a question mark and then the fascia tucks up into it sweetly.