A Roof Tile Broke
jaybeacham 22 Sep 2018 | : blog
A Roof Tile Broke
When a roof tile breaks, is it important to repair it quickly?
Can one wait?
What happens when a home owner waits to long.
The owner’s wife noticed a low area in the tile. The owner was shocked that his in-laws who built the house used “cheap” wafer board (a structural material made from rectangular wood flakes of controlled length and thickness bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure. The layers of flakes are not oriented, which makes it easier to manufacture.)
This Area that was rotted from one broken tile was over the metal soffit so did no damage to the inside of the house.
This area came from one broken tile. When being built, the felt was only overlapped 2 inches, so when the heat strunk the felt it left gaps that now had water running under the felt for 8 feet down the roof.
The water warped the board down all eight feet but fortunately no rot occurred.
But that one broken tile let birds in to make a nest by the edge of the roof and two rake tile just fell off, one into a garbage dumpster and one just to the side of the dumpster. The one inside the dumpster didn’t break but cracked while re-installing. So the birds broke two tile, hanger slates and felt had to be replaced over the whole area because of just one broken tile.
The tile protect the felt but after 30 years, the felt on this roof was really failing under the broken tile.
So a broken tile is a big deal.
Get them replaced as soon as you see the break. Even arrange to inspect the roof on occasion.
Go out right now and look at your tile roof.