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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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| 575307 | 2007-08-02 00:13:00 | After seeing the picture I would get it replaced (the tile not the entire roof), By a tradesman if required. | Metla (12) | ||
| 575308 | 2007-08-02 00:24:00 | 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. I agree. Ask one of them to replace the tile for you. Cost? A dozen beer. PJ Metla...I was going to suggest you come over for a coffe, but it is pouring down. Sorry about that. PJ :lol: |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 575309 | 2007-08-02 00:28:00 | Certainly not a lot of room for doubt as to the cause. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 575310 | 2007-08-02 00:31:00 | Metla...I was going to suggest you come over for a coffe, but it is pouring down. Sorry about that. PJ :lol: Trust me, You don't want the bug that has knocked me on my backside. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 575311 | 2007-08-02 00:47:00 | Monier tiles, same as ours. If you have a new tile remove the broken one by ensuring it is not nailed/clipped from underneath, then lift the old tile out by raising the tile immediately above it, slide the new one in ( there is a step which locks under the adjacent tile when you lower it again). Make sure everything is straight and properly in position, and hey presto the job is done. Piece if the proverbial. | Richard (739) | ||
| 575312 | 2007-08-02 00:53:00 | Trust me, You don't want the bug that has knocked me on my backside. OK PJ :eek: |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 575313 | 2007-08-02 00:57:00 | Your 'Yellow Pages' will tell you who sells Monier tiles and they will be happy to supply one for you. May even give it to you. They may even recommend someone to put it in for you. Drill a hole with a masonry bit, in the right place, for the sky brace, and fit a rubber seal under the bolt head just to be sure. Don't over tighten or you will need another tile!!! | Richard (739) | ||
| 575314 | 2007-08-02 01:07:00 | Monier tiles, same as ours. If you have a new tile remove the broken one by ensuring it is not nailed/clipped from underneath, then lift the old tile out by raising the tile immediately above it, slide the new one in ( there is a step which locks under the adjacent tile when you lower it again). Make sure everything is straight and properly in position, and hey presto the job is done. Piece if the proverbial. You'll probably find that ever second tile is nailed down. Give the tile above the broken one an upwards wriggle to slide it up, tahat should expose the broken tile to be fixed. Simplest fix would be to silicone it, as the screw mount for your sky dish will always be a problem. |
Helplesss (272) | ||
| 575315 | 2007-08-02 01:10:00 | Your 'Yellow Pages' will tell you who sells Monier tiles and they will be happy to supply one for you. May even give it to you. They may even recommend someone to put it in for you. Drill a hole with a masonry bit, in the right place, for the sky brace, and fit a rubber seal under the bolt head just to be sure. Don't over tighten or you will need another tile!!!I appreciate all the comments - thanks. But what I think what most don't appreciate is the multitude aspects of the problem: 1) cost 2) getting the replacement tile 3) removing the satellite dish 4) removing the tile 5) fitting the new tile 6) refitting the satellite dish 7) realigning the satellite dish Even if I grew two more sets of arms and managed to remove the tile, and then found a replacement, and then got the dish removed, and using my new six arms to replace the tile, and managed to carefully drill a hole through the tile to refit the dish, and found someone to go into the ceiling to help with the refitting of the dish, I'd still need Sky to realign it, and they'd be pretty reluctant to do that for free, I guess. I think the silicone idea rules. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 575316 | 2007-08-02 01:28:00 | Your 'Yellow Pages' will tell you who sells Monier tiles and they will be happy to supply one for you. May even give it to you. They may even recommend someone to put it in for you. Drill a hole with a masonry bit, in the right place, for the sky brace, and fit a rubber seal under the bolt head just to be sure. Don't over tighten or you will need another tile!!! Is it a sign of the times that the leftover tiles aren't left on site? I was in a normal tile shop when they refused to take back some tiles from a tiler because as they said "somebody has paid for them and should get to keep them as spares". The bracket bolt should tighten on a spacer sealed to the tile rather than the tile itself. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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