The tiles are usually hung in parallel rows with each row overlapping the row below it to exclude rainwater and to cover the nails that hold the row below.
Peg tile roof.
Peg tiles are characterised by their warm orange red hues and varied texture that they lend to a roof.
Tony s house video 5 laying the roof tiles rendering and taking down the scaffolding duration.
Others in surrey for instance were 11 inches long but could be as long as 11 5 inches 290mm.
Kent peg tiles are usually 9 5 inches 240mm in length.
Peg tiles were hand made and the drying and firing process led to subtle distortions and.
Roofs at this pitch would have required torching with mortar from the under side particularly where the roof space needed to be draughtproof.
Sussex peg tiles are more likely to be 10 inches 250mm in length.
This requirement varied from area.
My apprentice cutting up a peg tile valley.
There are also roof tiles for special positions particularly where the planes of the several pitches meet.