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Default Cement broken away from corner roof tiles

On 11/06/2021 15:29, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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John Rumm wrote:
For a verge you probably want a little bit of moisture in there to get
good suction onto the tiles, but yup a fairly stiff mix will be good.
(those premixed buckets tend to have some lime and plasticizer in the
mix already)


Yup. I'd say you want a mortar as flexible as possible and not too strong.
The ordinary mix most roofers seem to use on ridge tiles soon falls out.


Probably one of those cases where a traditional lime mortar works better.


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