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FAO Carpenters - Roof tiles query

Road-Hog · 2010-10-20 13:26:19

Doing a small extension which has a tiled roof, all rafters, felt and lats are in place, tiles arrived yesterday at last so I placed the first row to see how well they fitted, however to my surprise there was quite a bit of movement/play between adjacent tiles as in if you press one of the corners movement in the region of…

20-10-2010 2:26pm

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Doing a small extension which has a tiled roof, all rafters, felt and lats are in place, tiles arrived yesterday at last so I placed the first row to see how well they fitted, however to my surprise there was quite a bit of movement/play between adjacent tiles as in if you press one of the corners movement in the region of 2-4mm approx is occurring, my question is how much play/movement is acceptable if any. Carpenter is to return toward the end of the week don't want to bring the issue up with him if this is a fairly normal occurrance. Can anyone advise me?

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