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Anyway to re-enforce roof tiles?


TheMick

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Hi everyone,

I'm sick to death of all these storms.

 

I live in an area high up so even when we are not all getting storms we often have 60-90mph winds. Always have tap dancing tiles.

 

I've attached a pic showing the standard way they are clamped to the battens.

 

Does anyone know a way I could make them hold more solid that would not cause an issue if any needed removed for maintenance etc at a later date?

 

Replies appreciated. Thanks

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Your look fine, the tile fixings should be the weak link to prevent the whole roof coming off in one lump if wind did get under it.

what happened to the felt? Has it been pulled out or never had any?

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It never ceased to amaze me that roofs were actually done like this down south.

 

Being in Scotland I expect nothing less than sarking board, membrane then slate/tile.

 

As for dancing tiles, there is not a lot you can do if they are already fully fixed. 

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3 minutes ago, Carrerahill said:

It never ceased to amaze me that roofs were actually done like this down south.

 

Being in Scotland I expect nothing less than sarking board, membrane then slate/tile.

 

As for dancing tiles, there is not a lot you can do if they are already fully fixed. 

It must be a very old roof 

Wouldn’t have met building regs 40 years ago 

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4 hours ago, markc said:

Your look fine, the tile fixings should be the weak link to prevent the whole roof coming off in one lump if wind did get under it.

what happened to the felt? Has it been pulled out or never had any?

You can just see the original sheeting on the edges of the joists. It perished and had halfs hanging down so I've started just pulling it out and removing.

 

I'm wanting to eventually insulate and board the ceiling but wanted to do something better with the tiles first if anything could be done.

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