| If you have a tile roof on your home and it | | | | you may want to enlist the help of a lighter |
| is leaking, you shouldn't jump to conclusions | | | | friend. |
| and assume that it is due to faulty tiles. | | | | |
| This is because the leak may be originating | | | | Another trick is to shove a couple of long |
| from a poorly installed roof jack around a | | | | 2X8s on the roof that you have covered on the |
| pipe or from around an air conditioning unit. | | | | bottom with carpet padding and use them to |
| | | | walk on to disperse your weight. One trick is |
| The first thing that you will want to do is | | | | to slide pieces of flat sheet metal under the |
| to climb up in your attic and try to see | | | | damaged tile and use roofing plastic to glue |
| where the leak is coming from and bear in | | | | everything back in place, which most of the |
| mind that water can travel over the felt | | | | time will do the trick. |
| paper for several feet before it comes into | | | | |
| the attic. | | | | If you are determined to completely replace |
| | | | the tile though, then use a flat bar to slip |
| If you can see the broken tile however; this | | | | under the broken tile, cut or pull any nails |
| does make your job a lot easier and the thing | | | | and remove it. After you have done that then |
| that you will want to do is replace the | | | | slide a new tile in place and use roofing |
| broken tile without breaking more while you | | | | plastic to glue it down. Don't start banging |
| are climbing on the roof. When you walk on a | | | | new nails into a preexisting tile roof or you |
| flat tile roof step on the bottom portion of | | | | will be right back where you started at in |
| the tiles and if you weigh over 200 pounds | | | | short order with more broken tiles. |