How To Remove Slate Roof Tiles

This video from bunnings shows you how to take a tile off and replace it prop.

How to remove slate roof tiles.

Slate roofing tiles are still manufactured by hand using traditional methods in a five step process. You need to pull the shingles off your roof transport those shingles away from your home and dispose of them legally. Working with roof tiles is a lot easier when you know a couple of basic tricks. Cutting sculping splitting trimming and hole punching.

Strike the chisel with the sledgehammer to loosen and remove the tile. Withdraw the damaged tile and cover the gap in the roof with a plastic drop cloth. For larger areas remove enough tile by hand to fit the blade of. Limit cleaning to removing organic debris and delaminated slate flakes from valleys snow guards gutters and the area behind the chimney.

To access the tile you want to replace you might need to take out several slate roof tiles. Each of these stages requires different resources and involves its own kinds of costs. A vinyl leaf rake can clean harder to reach spots. Use your nail ripper to pry up the tile above the one you need to replace.

Continue to remove each slate tile by hand for smaller areas. It needs to be exposed enough so you can manipulate and remove it.