Bodge replacement for hip tiles

[David.WE.Roberts]

Our neighbour (other half of semi) need to replace some hip tiles, and is having difficulty matching the original 1930s French Monopole tiles.

Now we have a garage which has a roof matching the main houses and which is not long for this world (due to come down next year sometime).

So we are happy to 'pre-scrap' some of the tiles to help them out.

The first thought was to use some non-matching hip tiles to replace ours.

Is there a cheaper and simpler 'bodge' such as using half round guttering and a load of mortar which would maintain the integrity of the roof for a year although looking pig ugly?

Suggestions welcome.

Cheers

Dave R

[Tim Watts]

On Monday 28 October 2013 15:21 David.WE.Roberts wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Why not just use some ordinary plain hip tiles on yours?

They are £4-5 each:

You could get cheaper and nastier than that...

[Bob Minchin]

I've used inverted guttering instead of fibre cement ridge tiles. I ran 300 mm lead along first, screwed the gutter down through the lead using those screw covers designed for corrugated plastic with sealing caps and washers. Dress the lead down to seal against the tiles.

Been fine for 7 years so far