Brown tile hipped roof re-roof

Hipped roofs have more cut tiles and more junctions than gabled roofs, and the hips are where they fail: mortar falls out, hip irons rust and the hip tiles slide. This roof was stripped back to the timbers, which were sound, then membraned and battened, and the photograph from above the scaffold shows the battens set out across the hips ready for tiling.

The finished roof is brown interlocking tiles with the hips and ridge completed in a mechanically fixed system, so there is no mortar to fall out, and the chimney re-flashed in lead.

Photos from the job

Hipped roof fully membraned and battened before tiling, from above Brown tiled hipped roof completed on scaffold Finished brown tiled roof with chimney stack

Services on this job

• New roofs
• Tiled roofs