10 November 2008

Tic Tac Tile?

10 November 2008 | tylersmayhem

At the risk of this being a “the best coffee in Canberra” post, I’ll give it a shot anyway, because my options seem to be narrowing quickly.

Where the hell does anyone find a wide selection of used roof tiles in Canberra? I’ve tried Aussie Junk…both of them – no dice! I’ve tried a few roof repairers – sure, they can locate a few but are keen to do a full roof repair, or charge extortionate prices for a couple of tiles.

I figure there has to be something out there, and surely I’m not alone on this one. Being the owner of a 30+ year old house with broken tiles that are causing leaks would be a fairly common problem?!

Any ideas folks?

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tylersmayhem10:16 am 12 Nov 08

Although this thread is probably long forgotten – roof fixed, awesome! The 80 tiles actually came i very handy with doing some preventative maintenance on the roof. AllClassifieds rules!

Thanks for everyone’s input and suggestion – really appreciated.

tylersmayhem8:10 am 11 Nov 08

Thanks Holden…I figured someone would pick up on it soon enough 🙂

Holden Caulfield5:15 pm 10 Nov 08

Nice irony in the tylersmayhem username. :p

peterh4:51 pm 10 Nov 08

tylersmayhem said :

It’s not hard to do – you don’t need a uni degree to fix roofs

But it’s ME we’re talking about here Kramer! 😛

just be careful, tylers. don’t want to hear that you fell in the midst of roofing repairs…

tylersmayhem4:18 pm 10 Nov 08

It’s not hard to do – you don’t need a uni degree to fix roofs

But it’s ME we’re talking about here Kramer! 😛

Kramer4:12 pm 10 Nov 08

Like I said – new tiles are cheap.

In Canberra most roofs will only have every second row of tiles nailed down. Slide some of the un-nailed tiles above the broken tile up, and then you can lift out the damaged tile and replace. It’s not hard to do – you don’t need a uni degree to fix roofs 🙂

tylersmayhem3:48 pm 10 Nov 08

Thanks all! S&J Thackeray have the tiles I need and was going to drop by to see them, but I have since ended up scoring 80 brand new of them for $30 elsewhere – RESULT!

Now for how to fit them?! Something else to learn by trial and error I suppose. Wish me luck.

Holden Caulfield2:02 pm 10 Nov 08

tylersmayhem said :

I get on great with my neighbor! If you’re thinking along the lines of asking if they have a spare couple under the house – they have different roof tiles to us 🙁

Haha, I was thinking if you didn’t get on with them you could just nick one!

And before all the killjoys, wowsers and knuckleheads tell me what an arse I am, my previous comment was a joke. 🙂

Snarky1:46 pm 10 Nov 08

I’ll second Zac at S&J Thackeray. We extended our house and Zac came up with tiles of the same age and almost exactly the same colour as our ex-govvie. You can’t tell them apart! If you only have few to replace now I’d suggest buying a couple of dozen because sooner or later you’ll need ’em 🙂

tylersmayhem10:44 am 10 Nov 08

I get on great with my neighbor! If you’re thinking along the lines of asking if they have a spare couple under the house – they have different roof tiles to us 🙁

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