Roof batten systems use less fasteners.
Roof tile batten trolley.
How to tile a roof with clay or concrete tiles new roof duration.
According to cemtile most roof tile manufacturers allow direct nailing but on roofs with a slope greater than 7 12 or on roofs.
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.
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.
Essential accessory to keep tiles and slates close to hand.
Tiles can be transferred from one end of the roof to the other with a minimum of physical effort.
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.
That means there are fewer fasteners compromising the underlayer of roofing for each square.
On roofs with a steep slope tiles are usually fastened to battens.
If you re re roofing with tiles you may find that some of the original battens need to be replaced.