In article , Dave Plowman (News) writes
Possibly. I live on a small estate of houses built in the '30s. Most of the roofs are original, though some are kept in better condition than others. I need to get a few repairs done to mine this year. My roof, and presumably the others, has the lime-mortar pointing.
Have you read the rest of the thread?
As has been already pointed out it was a common (though probably not universal) practice with prewar tiled roofs
I'm back for another reason but couldn't help seeing this thread.
We live on a small inter-war estate. Our house was built in 1937 and was bought from new by my mother's sister and her husband. We bought it from her in 1964, I've known it all my life.
When it was new my father 'back pointed' the rosemary tiles, it most certainly wasn't a bodged job, it was a deliberate, good job and inside the whole roof.
Very many of the other houses on the estate now either have new roofs or have needed replacement tiles as they've been dislodged by high winds over the years. Our roof is probably unique in that it has needed absolutely no maintenance of any kind in almost seventy years.
My uncle was fairly wealthy and had various non-standard installations by friends and family which we still enjoy. He could afford to pay my father to do the back pointing but it wasn't standard. My father was glad of the work in those days, they were hard times. My aunt's family and the Fisher family, have certainly benefited from his work and our sound roof is a constant reminder of my Dad who is now dead.
Mary
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