repairing cement roof verges
 

just found several lumps of cement (about 4x2x2 inch) which have fallen out
of the verges
of my tiled roof.... leaving an 18inch long gap...
upon closer inspection I see there are a few cracks in the mortar
generally along the verge... what the easiest way to repair ...
I though of re-mortaring where there are gaps and then hoped to paint
something over the
rest to hold it in place (like on of those elastic rubber roof paints)....

Would this be anygood? I don't much fancy raking out the whole of the verges
and remortaring?
Is there a better/simpler diy method? I though of those plastic caps... a
neighbour had them done...
but it seemed to involve a lot of work with the builders taking off tiles,
cutting tiles etc.

Andrew

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Andrew wrote:
just found several lumps of cement (about 4x2x2 inch) which have fallen
out of the verges of my tiled roof.... leaving an 18inch long gap...
upon closer inspection I see there are a few cracks in the mortar
generally along the verge... what the easiest way to repair ... I though
of re-mortaring where there are gaps and then hoped to paint something
over the rest to hold it in place (like on of those elastic rubber roof
paints)....

Would this be anygood? I don't much fancy raking out the whole of the
verges and remortaring? Is there a better/simpler diy method? I though
of those plastic caps... a neighbour had them done... but it seemed to
involve a lot of work with the builders taking off tiles, cutting tiles
etc.

These mortar fillets always seem to give trouble - probably because the
roof timbers move. My artificial slate roof has 'special' ridge 'tiles'
that don't involve mortar. However, other artificial tile roofs in the
street use ceramic ridge tiles with mortar - and all seem to have this
happen.

I'd be inclined to try a mastic.

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