Peter Insole
Western Thunderer
I have just remembered that this tile tale has to be brought up to date!
Last Wednesday, I finally got to the vexing issue of the ridges.
Fortunately there are a number of plain card sheets left over from the tile laser cut, and one or two will be more than enough for this next task.
JB had printed a sheet of batten lines as a guide for the main roof, so using that again I marked out a section with pencil. Then I measured the diagonal pitch of the roof and traced it over the lines. I clamped a straight edge over the sheet and on to the table, enabling me run a set square up and down to accurately repeat the angle of each cut.
Apologies for the scruffy pencil work, but I wasn't too careful enough with the tools. That wretched laser soot gets everywhere!
I only bothered to do a short strip at this point, just in case the experiment was a failure...
The first cut came out fine, and I was pleasantly surprised that the tiles fitted perfectly!
I therefore felt confident enough, and for a bit of extra speed, to use the spare off-cut piece (top left in above photo) as a template to cut another couple of runs.
The trick was to cut the first set of angles up to the diagonal pencil line, then score the fold before turning the template over and making the final cut!
It would be an idea to make a more durable metal template as there are quite a lot more to cut, but then again, I only need to mark out another one or two more as the job continues, so the added effort might not be worthwhile?
The next part was to cut some "Tile and a half" strips to let into the increasing sized gaps.
The close up scale in the photo has revealed rather too many wobbles for my liking, so I will try and up the game for the viewing side of the roof...!
On the end, several more trimmed "tile and a halves" will be required.
Every dozen or so hips, the alignment returns to a slightly trimmed "common" tile, then full width, before another short batch of wide ones to reach the top!
I was quite happy at the close of play!
The next session should hopefully see the technique polished, and the pace heated up a bit too?
Pete.
Last Wednesday, I finally got to the vexing issue of the ridges.
Fortunately there are a number of plain card sheets left over from the tile laser cut, and one or two will be more than enough for this next task.
JB had printed a sheet of batten lines as a guide for the main roof, so using that again I marked out a section with pencil. Then I measured the diagonal pitch of the roof and traced it over the lines. I clamped a straight edge over the sheet and on to the table, enabling me run a set square up and down to accurately repeat the angle of each cut.
Apologies for the scruffy pencil work, but I wasn't too careful enough with the tools. That wretched laser soot gets everywhere!
I only bothered to do a short strip at this point, just in case the experiment was a failure...
The first cut came out fine, and I was pleasantly surprised that the tiles fitted perfectly!
I therefore felt confident enough, and for a bit of extra speed, to use the spare off-cut piece (top left in above photo) as a template to cut another couple of runs.
The trick was to cut the first set of angles up to the diagonal pencil line, then score the fold before turning the template over and making the final cut!
It would be an idea to make a more durable metal template as there are quite a lot more to cut, but then again, I only need to mark out another one or two more as the job continues, so the added effort might not be worthwhile?
The next part was to cut some "Tile and a half" strips to let into the increasing sized gaps.
The close up scale in the photo has revealed rather too many wobbles for my liking, so I will try and up the game for the viewing side of the roof...!
On the end, several more trimmed "tile and a halves" will be required.
Every dozen or so hips, the alignment returns to a slightly trimmed "common" tile, then full width, before another short batch of wide ones to reach the top!
I was quite happy at the close of play!
The next session should hopefully see the technique polished, and the pace heated up a bit too?
Pete.
