Ridge and hip capping is the highest, most exposed line on your roof and the first thing Perth sun breaks down. Once the pointing crumbles, water gets under the caps and into the roof space. Re-pointing is a small job compared to what it prevents.
Old hard mortar pointing has no give in it. Perth roofs move all day, expanding in the heat and contracting overnight, and rigid mortar cracks under that cycle long before the tiles wear out.
Hairline cracks along the pointing line, mortar you can pick out with a finger, or a cap that moves when pushed. From the ground it looks like nothing. From up there it is an open path into the roof.
Left alone the bedding underneath starts to go, and then it stops being a pointing job and becomes a rebedding job.
We point with Star Point flexible pointing rather than a rigid mortar mix. It moves with the roof instead of fighting it, which is the whole reason the original pointing failed.
Every existing weep hole is reinstated through the new pointing so the roof can still drain. Sealing them up traps water in the bedding, and plenty of cheap pointing jobs do exactly that.
Six stages, and it is the preparation rather than the pointing itself that decides how long it lasts.
All loose or failed ridge pointing is cut back and removed where required. Anything that has lost its grip comes off rather than getting covered over.
Old mortar is removed from the ridge cap edges to give a sound substrate, which is what the new pointing has to key into. Skip this and the new pointing lifts within a couple of years.
Cap edges, bedding mortar and the adjacent roof tiles all get wire brushed to remove every bit of loose material, because flexible pointing only bonds to a clean surface.
Star Point flexible pointing goes on, worked into the joint properly and finished off along the full length of every ridge and hip.
Every existing weep hole is opened back up through the new pointing so the roof drains the way it was designed to.
The roof surface is blown down and the gutters cleaned out on completion, with your gardens, paths and the neighbours' place protected from dust and debris throughout.
Ridge capping re-bedded and re-pointed runs $1,200 to $3,000 on a typical Perth home. Where the bedding underneath is still sound and only the pointing has gone, it sits at the lower end. The onsite look is free and the quote is written before anyone starts.
Our guarantee covers defects in our materials and workmanship for 15 years from the day the job is finished. Plain terms, on our warranty page.
We work right across the Perth metro, north and south of the river. These suburbs have a page of their own: South Perth, Applecross, Ascot, Baldivis, Canning Vale, Joondalup, Midland, Wanneroo. If yours is not listed we almost certainly still get there, so ask and we will tell you straight away.
"Mati and Ryan did a fantastic job and I can't believe how wonderful my roof looks! Tiles replaced, ridge capping repaired, painted and sealed, plus extra jobs done at the last minute!"
"Awesome job. Great at communications and really looks after his clients. Rare to find people who will do their job and provide proper support these days. Killi is definitely one of them."
"Mati and his team did a great job on my roof. He was so busy but promised he would have it done by Christmas and he did. So happy with his work. Would highly recommend this company."
Considerably longer than the rigid mortar it replaces, because it moves with the roof rather than cracking against it. What shortens any pointing job is poor preparation, which is why the cap edges get cut back and wire brushed before anything new goes on.
No, and anyone offering to is selling you a repeat job. New pointing needs a sound, clean substrate to bond to. Laid over failed mortar it takes the failure with it.
Only if the bedding mortar the caps sit in has also gone. We tell you which one it is when we are up there, and we will not quote rebedding on a roof that only needs pointing. See rebedding for what that job involves.
Yes. Every full roof restoration includes re-pointing all ridge and hip capping with flexible compound. Pointing on its own is for roofs that do not need the rest of it.
We come out, get on the roof and tell you whether it needs replacing or whether a restoration will do. If restoring will hold, that is what we will quote, and it is the cheaper job.