Repointing Roof: What is It and Does Your Roof Need It?

Repairing and maintaining your roof can be very confusing, especially if you have slate roofing. Repointing roof is extremely important, especially if the storm season is approaching. Many homes during these times will be adding out their annual maintenance checks. During these procedures, one of the most important things to do and which is necessary for proper maintenance of tiled roofs is to do some repointing of the roof. If you have ridge tiles for slate roofs, these are the most important things worth knowing:

What is ridge capping?

Recapping refers to triangular shaped tiles. They usually sit at the highest point on your roof. And you will generally see them where different roof areas will intersect. You need to have these tiles fixed on the roof with the help of bedding and pointing.

What is bedding and pointing?

Bedding generally consists of cement, mortar, and sand. It is used for fixing the ridge capping on the roof. Pointing is a type of flexible material which can be applied for completion of joints. These joints exist between the ridges and the tiles on the roof.

How to find out if your roof needs repointing or re bedding?

There's a very simple process for determining if your roof needs repointing or re bedding. If there are any cracks or gaps in the pointing that lies along the edges of the ridge capping, this means that your roof needs to be repointed. You can easily complete a visual inspection of the roof and the ridge capping from the ground itself, because this is enough to get an idea about the condition in which you're pointing maybe. Rebedding is a little bit more difficult to determine on your own. If you think that the bedding of the roof needs repair, you will have to ask a contractor or a roofer to inspect the roof and ridge capping.

How are rebedding end repointing done?

Rebedding refers to the removal of any old bedding and pointing material. After this, the more dart we're bedding is mixed with the combination of three parts of roofers' loom and one part of cement. After that, this mix is applied using a trowel on the roof tiles which are to be covered by the ridge capping.

Generally speaking, every rack is used for keeping the ridges straight, and the bedding is applied in such a way that it is exactly in the right place for the ridge caps to sit on it. Motor web, the bedding is trowelled in such a way that it is very neat and has a good up and down finish. The finish should be slightly inwards from the ridge. This will result in a solid surface for the pointing to fix itself to.

After the bedding has dried, the contractor will apply flexible pointing on the sides of the ridges. This is done to a thickness of three to 5MM. The colors where the ridge tiles will overlap are also pointed. The ridges are now secured completely from any uplift from the wind, and they are also waterproof point. The flexi point on the ridges also helps maintain the flexes in harmony is there is normal roof movement, which can generally help in stopping future cracking of the capping of the ridge.

These are generally the common guidelines for understanding the ins and outs of ridge capping. You should regularly check your roof for three pointing and re bedding. You should also make sure that you only contact a qualified roofer for giving you the correct roofing solutions when it comes to repointing and re bedding. This is because generally speaking, someone who doesn't know how to handle ridge tiles cannot just damage the roof, but also result in breaking off the tiles on the rest of the roof.

Moreover, the ridge tiles maintain an important function of me ensuring proper roof movements and maintaining the roofs water proof qualities. If you do not choose the right roofing solution provider to repoint the roof and re bed the ridges, you might end up with more damage than initially there was.

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