How To Lay Roof Tiles On A Porch

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How to lay roof tiles on a porch.

At the eave and the rake install u shape drip edge flashing made for reroof jobs. Plain tiles use a double head lap in the same way as slates. The two pieces should meet neatly at the corners. How to tile a roof if you would prefer to read how to tile a roof and see more help please visit this link unless you found this video via my website.

Churchtown roofline windows. Drive nails at high points on the underlying roof the bottoms of the shingles. Install the eave piece first then the rake piece over it. If your roof has a steep slope install the battens next which are thin strips of material that run horizontally along the roof.

Roofing with plain tiles. Working on a roof involves working at height even on a bungalow so always use scaffolding or other stable platform never use just ladders. An awful lot of people including builders and roofers get the layout of a new roof wrong right from the start subsequently they end up with a leaking roof or one that just looks awful. Roofing batten common sizes of tile lath slate lath or tile batten.