How To Repair A Slipped Roof Slate

If the slate has started to flake away and thin around any of the holes this.

How to repair a slipped roof slate.

Examine the fixing holes in the slate. You hook it over the retaining nail and either pull down sharply or use a hammer. How to repair a slate roof removing a tile this is easy with the correct tool. This is a specially designed tool which slides under the tile.

Many slipped slates due to the original nails now rotting away completely strips of lead approx 12. Normally friction alone is enough to hold the lead bib in place. Quick video i made when i was fixing the roof last week. 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. If the slate has started. Scottish slate is no longer quarried so repair relies on stocks of reclaimed slate. This will pull out or snap the retaining nail.

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