Repointing Tiled Roofs

Expert advice on how to repair tile and masonry roofs including fixing holes and cracks and tips for replacing broken roof tiles.

Repointing tiled roofs.

To repair your roof we use only the highest quality materials and industry best practices to ensure you and your family are provided many more years of shelter in your home. In the simplest instances you might have a missing or damaged roof tile which is letting in water. Repointing a full roof can cost between 500 750. Check out our range of roof tile pointing products at your local bunnings warehouse.

Replacing faulty roof tiles will help you avoid serious structural damage to your home and costly repairs. Repointing roof tiles may protect your property from damage and reduce the need for repeat maintenance. Covid 19 update to customers our metropolitan melbourne stores will remain open for trade customers only. We encourage retail customers to use our click deliver or drive collect service.

Roof tile restoration involves replacing and re aligning individual roof tiles. Roof cement is primarily used to hold roof tiles hip tiles and ridge tiles securely in place it also keeps out rainwater. The most common problem with tile concrete tile fiber cement and other types of masonry roofing is cracking. Roof repointing can range from replacing a few tiles repointing ridge edges and all the way up to replacing entire sections.

Homes built before 1995 may still have pointing constructed from cement mortar. Total roof restoration has been installing repairing restoring and cleaning roof across melbourne for over 15 years. If your roofing has not been replaced or updated since before 1995 you may want to consider repointing. If this is the case it can cost around 200 for a roofer to replace a handful of cement clay or slate tiles and can be done relatively quickly typically in a few hours.

For anything but an occasional cracked or broken tile hire a roofer. This is how i cement roof tiles pointing the verge in with two coats of cement the cement i use has black dye mix in it to help match the roof tiles in colo. The correct mix ratio is 3 parts sand to 1 part cement this is much stronger than bricklayers use 5 1 as the cement on the roof must withstand more driving rain than a typic. From there repairs such as repointing the ridge edges and replacing broken damaged or cracked tiles followed by an anti fungicide and sealer.

Ace roofing repairs are the experts when it comes to roof tile repairs and restoration in melbourne.