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