Roofing is a combination of two trades, carpenters and tilers when the two are combined they make roofing. This process begins with the carpenters fixing timber trusses to a roof plate at the finished height of the house or building in question. Once the trusses are fixed, spaced and plumbed then its time for the tillers to come.

The tilers then turn up for the two jobs of felting and battening, this can be a dangerous job to say the least. First the felt is fitted to the trusses from the bottom upwards as to let any unwanted water run off. The battens are the fixed directly to the felt and into the timber horizontally ready for the tiles to be attached to.

Once the felt and battening has been completed it is time to bring in the tiles. The tiles are brought to site and delivered to the scaffolding by heavy duty forklift. The tillers will then carry these up to the roof and stack them on the top boards.

Soon as the tiles are all up and waiting the roofers will space them out all over the roof as the make the job of laying them much faster. Once again the job of laying tiles will be started from the bottom up for the same reason as already mentioned. The tiles are fixed to the timber battens using galvanized steel nails as to not rust over time.

The tiles used can be made of many materials including slate, eco-wood and terracotta. These will be laid in no time at all as the contractors will usually be paid by the job and not by the hour. Now the roof has all of the surface area covered it will have a gap running across the ridge at apex level.

This will be covered by copings, and laid using water proof cement as to not let any rain in, this would have disastrous effects on the inside of the house. Guttering will be fixed around the house at the bottom of the roof to catch the rainfall and direct it to the designated drainage hole. The only thing left to do now is to fix the facia boards, the facia boards finish off the look of the building as they hide the rough cut gable ends left by the bricklayers.

Now the only thing left for the project is to remove the scaffold to reveal the finished article. This is the job of the scaffolders. Although some countries do not acknowledge scaffolding as a trade and therefor in this case the bricklayers will remove this.

The colour of the roofing tiles are usually based upon the colour of the bricks chosen by the client. However, they do not always match. When considering a new roof you must make sure your property does not fall into any listed categories, for example grade one and grade two listed buildings must have specific requirements met, this will depend on the age of the house and style of surrounding buildings.

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