Tile Roof Repairs Melbourne
Tile roof repairs across Melbourne.
Concrete and terracotta tile roofs are everywhere in Melbourne, and they fail in predictable ways. Cracked and slipped tiles, tired bedding and pointing, rusted valleys. We repair all of it, with tiles matched to your roof wherever possible.
Tile Roof Repairs in Melbourne
Concrete and terracotta, repaired properly.
Concrete and terracotta behave differently
Concrete tiles lose their coloured surface with age and slowly go porous and chalky. Terracotta holds its colour for a century but becomes brittle, and old terracotta cracks easily under foot traffic. The repair approach and the replacement tiles are different for each, and we work on both every week across Melbourne.
Cracked, slipped and broken tiles
Tiles crack from hail, falling branches, age and, most often, someone walking on the roof the wrong way. A slipped tile is just as serious as a broken one because it exposes the sarking underneath. We replace broken tiles, re-seat slipped ones and check the battens and sarking below before closing the roof back up.
Matching your tiles
Plenty of Melbourne roofs carry discontinued tile profiles, from older concrete patterns to early terracotta. We source matching tiles from suppliers and salvage yards, and where a perfect match is not available we take sound tiles from a less visible face of your roof and put the near-match where it will not be seen. A good tile repair should be invisible from the street.
Bedding, pointing and valleys
Many tile roof leaks are not the tiles at all. The mortar bedding and pointing along the ridge breaks down, and the metal valleys between roof planes rust out long before the tiles fail. We check capping and valleys on every tile repair, because replacing one tile while a valley rusts through next to it is not a fix.
Why early tile repairs pay off
One broken tile lets water onto the sarking, and sarking is a backup with a limited life, not a second roof. Once it tears, water is into your ceiling. A tile swapped this month is a small job. The same fault left through a Melbourne winter can mean plaster, insulation and timber as well.
If the roof is past repair
When tiles are fretting and crumbling across the whole roof, repair stops being economical. If that is what we find, we will say so and talk you through a restoration or replacement instead, with a written quote for each so you can decide with the facts in front of you.
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