Tile Roof Restoration Brisbane
Brisbane is a city of tiled roofs, and most of them are decades into their life. A proper tile restoration replaces broken tiles, resets the ridge capping and recoats the surface, adding years of service for far less than a re-roof.
The tile restoration process
Concrete and terracotta tiles are tough, but the mortar and coatings around them age faster than the tiles themselves. A full tile restoration works through:
- Roof inspection and a count of cracked, chipped or slipped tiles
- High-pressure cleaning to strip moss, lichen and the degraded old surface
- Replacing broken tiles with matching profiles
- Rebedding ridge and hip capping where the old mortar bed has failed
- Flexible repointing over all capping so it moves with the roof instead of cracking
- Primer plus two coats of membrane on concrete tiles, or a clean and seal finish on glazed terracotta
Concrete vs terracotta: different treatment
Concrete tiles lose their coloured surface coating over 15 to 25 years, going pale and porous. They respond beautifully to recoating, which restores colour and seals the surface. Terracotta tiles keep their colour in the clay itself and glazed terracotta generally should not be painted; restoration for terracotta focuses on cleaning, replacing drummy or cracked tiles, and rebedding and repointing the capping.
Ridge capping is the part Brisbane storms find first. Old rigid mortar cracks as the roof expands and contracts, and once capping is loose, wind-driven rain gets straight in. Modern flexible pointing compounds are engineered to move, which is why rebedding and repointing is core to every quality tile restoration.
Typical cost in Brisbane
A full concrete tile restoration on a typical Brisbane home commonly quotes between $4,500 and $12,000 depending on size, pitch and how many tiles and how much capping needs work. Terracotta clean-and-repoint jobs often come in below equivalent concrete recoats because there is no coating stage. All quotes through the network are free and itemised.