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| Thread ID: 81614 | 2007-08-01 23:13:00 | Our house is falling apart! | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 575297 | 2007-08-01 23:13:00 | Just mildly curious about other people's views on our latest problem... After the recent problems I've had with the loo seat bolt replacement (solved, thanks Bunnings), door lock, and dishwasher, now we find a leak in the roof. After looking in the ceiling we find a tile has cracked and after yesterday's rain storm we had water dripping through a light socket into the lounge. Turns out the tile is one where Sky somewhat clumsily bolted their dish onto the roof. I have a few options to get it sorted... Sky themselves, but I think they'd be hard to get to pay; insurance, who're sending out an assessor; or just seal the crack myself with selleys (which is probably the way I'll go). The possible problem with getting it paid by insurance is that the dish was installed before we bought the house. One of Sky's men realigned the dish after we moved in, and he *may* have caused the damage then, which is the angle I'd take. But then there's the issue of the excess charge and loss of no-claims bonus. I reckon I'll just get up there and put silicone in the crack. What would you do? |
Greg (193) | ||
| 575298 | 2007-08-01 23:20:00 | Replace the tile. Shouldn't be too hard. | Richard (739) | ||
| 575299 | 2007-08-01 23:30:00 | Not too sure how they build domiciles in NZ...but under that tile is some sort of water/vapor barrier and I suspect that just putting a replacement tile in place of a cracked or broken one is not gonna do what you think it is. If indeed youse guys use things like tarpaper or plastic or sheepskins, that's where I'd check for water tight integrity first. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 575300 | 2007-08-01 23:47:00 | A lot of the tiled roof houses were built as State rentals in the 40's and 50's. These used a concrete tile without any vapour barrier. Spare tiles were usually left in only some of the houses. Even without cracks these tiles are getting a bit thin these days and quite a few houses have a collection of icecream tubs or buckets in the roof. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 575301 | 2007-08-02 00:00:00 | Replace the tile. Shouldn't be too hard.Huh? I'd love to know how to do that. What with all the other tiles overlapping it from above and the top one cemented to the peak whatever-you-call-it. Plus buy a new tile... one! lol Joe... under the tiles is nothing - just the ceiling. Apparently it's supposed be like that to allow proper airflow. The house is only three years old, and is watertight, apart from this damn cracked tile. Image here (www.imagef1.net.nz). [edit] And here (www.imagef1.net.nz). |
Greg (193) | ||
| 575302 | 2007-08-02 00:01:00 | I reckon I'll just get up there and put silicone in the crack. Bad idea. Do it properly. Have some friends here with the same situation. Every time they have some work done, new fireplace, etc tiles get broken. Because they're old and brittle. They got a quote to replace the roof - $18,000. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 575303 | 2007-08-02 00:05:00 | Bad idea. Do it properly. Have some friends here with the same situation. Every time they have some work done, new fireplace, etc tiles get broken. Because they're old and brittle. They got a quote to replace the roof - $18,000.Replace the roof because of one broken tile? LOLOL Dunno what AMI will think of that idea! :lol: |
Greg (193) | ||
| 575304 | 2007-08-02 00:10:00 | Just seal it. Job done. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 575305 | 2007-08-02 00:12:00 | Silicone now, then take your time investigating replacing the tile completely - may or may not be tricky. | AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 575306 | 2007-08-02 00:13:00 | Go around the new areas that are building houses. Choose a house that is getting same colour tiles as you have and ask the roof tiler for one, thats what i did a while back. They have a bit of wastage they don't miss one tile. | Bantu (52) | ||
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