Tile Roof Hip End Mortar

Cut adjacent tiles and tile and a half tiles to fit neatly.

Tile roof hip end mortar.

Download dwg file. Recent changes to bs 5534 the code of practice for slating and tiling have introduced some important changes to the way that roofs are fixed. Designed to set clay and cementitious roof tile. Fill end of first hip tile with mortar and tile slips finished flush.

Unless hip and ridge tiles on a clay tile roof are going to be set into a continuous bed of mortar special nailers are required to install them. Mortar has historically been the popular way to install tiles and fittings at a number of key roof areas including roof hips ridge and verges but there a number of factors that cause mortar to fail making it unsuitable in the long term. Lay courses of underlay over hip with overlaps of not less than 150mm. A galvanised hip iron is usually secured to the hip timber at the lower end before the mortar bed is laid and the lowest ridge tile is set to just clear this.

Strike mortar back neatly about 13mm from edge of bonnet hip tile leaving the edges clean. Meets astm c 270 specifications for type m mortar and meets south florida and metro dade building code requirements. On hip roofs the end of the lowest ridge tile is cut so that it aligns with the bottom edge of the slates tiles on the adjoining roof faces. They are toenailed in place and individually wrapped with felt figure 2 30 shown at left.

With tile tite you can apply mortar and set tile in compliance with miami dade county code approval. The hip and ridge boards are typically 2x3s to 2x6s set on edge to hold the trim tiles in an even plane. Bags are 50 lighter than other mortars which means less wear and tear on you and your installers. Hip with arris hip tiles.