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Your best bet is to get something like a rubble sack or heavy plastic sheet and push it as far as you can up under the tile directly under the ridge tile. Then try to introduce some tension into it, maybe by weighting the bottom edge, so that water running down it doesn't weigh it down and create a pool.
If you cover the ridge water will likely still be able to get into the breakage.A roofer repairing that will need to take off probably 3 of the ridge (which will break), and will need at least 3 of those rare-looking tiles.
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Thanks for taking a look, I’ll give that temp fix a go.
The repair sounds like more work than I had hoped and it’ll drive me crazy if the new tiles and ridge don’t match as It’s all visible from the ground as well as house. I have two spare tiles ready from a neighbour and an architectural salvage place nearby has similar too. I’m not so sure about the ridge.
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Placing a piece of hardboard / other stiff sheet under it would prevent pooling too. Belt & braces.
iamalex
NotThamesWater
The local window cleaner has put his foot through some tiles on our kitchen roof, where they meet a ridge. He’s promised he’ll get it fixed through a roofer nephew but I can’t see it happening before the next bout of rain so I want to try and get temporarily watertight whilst we thrash out how or who is going to fix. Particularly frustrating as last time he was round I was on the roof fixing something else and asked if he could leave the back windows and not ever climb on the roof as I couldn’t face having to fix anything else.
I was going to buy some plastic sheet drape over the ridge and secure, then cover the broken area and secure down the sides with tapering the bottom edge open - does this approach sound sensible?
Does anyone know what ballpark cost I might be looking at if we get someone in?