Tile Roof Hip End Mortar

They are toenailed in place and individually wrapped with felt figure 2 30 shown at left.

Tile roof hip end mortar.

Download dwg file. With tile tite you can do it better and easier than ever be fore because tile tite gives you numerous advantages over using other premixed sanded mortars. 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. Bags are 50 lighter than other mortars which means less wear and tear on you and your installers.

The hip and ridge boards are typically 2x3s to 2x6s set on edge to hold the trim tiles in an even plane. 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. Hip with arris hip tiles. 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.

Meets astm c 270 specifications for type m mortar and meets south florida and metro dade building code requirements. Metro dade project number 11 1222 07. Strike mortar back neatly about 13mm from edge of bonnet hip tile leaving the edges clean. Oldcastle sakrete roof tile mortar mix is a mixture of high strength masonry cement and sand.

Designed to set clay and cementitious roof tile. Cut adjacent tiles and tile and a half tiles to fit neatly. 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. Fill end of first hip tile with mortar and tile slips finished flush.