If you re re roofing with tiles you may find that some of the original battens need to be replaced.
Roof tile batten trolley.
The roof trolley runs laterally along the lathing and can carry tiles and slates it allows the user to always have their equipment close to their working area.
How to tile a roof with clay or concrete tiles new roof duration.
Direct deck roofing can have as many as two hundred fasteners while the batten roofing has less than fifty.
See a loaded batten trolley glide easily along the roof.
That means there are fewer fasteners compromising the underlayer of roofing for each square.
Timber battens for tile roofs must meet the requirements of as 1684 2 as 1684 3 or as 1720 1.
Tiles can be transferred from one end of the roof to the other with a minimum of physical effort.
This small light device allows up to 50 tiles at a time to be conveyed across a roof using the battens as rails the hytile batten trolley has always been a popular tool for the back conscious roof tiler.
Direct deck systems do not have the same wind ratings as batten roofs have to offer.
According to cemtile most roof tile manufacturers allow direct nailing but on roofs with a slope greater than 7 12 or on roofs.
Roof batten systems use less fasteners.