I've got these vertical plain clay tiles on the top half of my house (A 1949 ex-council house) and some of them are broken and one was hanging (as broken in half) so I took it down before it could fall on someone.
As I had literally just fitted a roof vent I had a spare couple of tiles so wanted to replace the worst of the broken vertical tiles on the exterior wall.
However, they are not the same as the roof tiles as I had first expected, they are minus the lip - this is not the problem.
I had expected that the tiles would be resting, and nailed into horizontal battons - like the roof - however they are not, each and every tile is nailed directly into the dense concrete bricks underneath.
So my question is, to replace these few tiles, I have to start from the top and remove a whole bunch of tiles... just to replace 1! Or is there another way I'm oblivious to?
Cheers.
As I had literally just fitted a roof vent I had a spare couple of tiles so wanted to replace the worst of the broken vertical tiles on the exterior wall.
However, they are not the same as the roof tiles as I had first expected, they are minus the lip - this is not the problem.
I had expected that the tiles would be resting, and nailed into horizontal battons - like the roof - however they are not, each and every tile is nailed directly into the dense concrete bricks underneath.
So my question is, to replace these few tiles, I have to start from the top and remove a whole bunch of tiles... just to replace 1! Or is there another way I'm oblivious to?
Cheers.
