5 1 peg tiles were generally used on steep roof pitches at around 50 degrees.
Peg tile roof.
Others in surrey for instance were 11 inches long but could be as long as 11 5 inches 290mm.
Tony s house video 5 laying the roof tiles rendering and taking down the scaffolding duration.
Peg tiles are characterised by their warm orange red hues and varied texture that they lend to a roof.
Around york peg tiles can be as large as 12 inches x 8 inches 300mm x 200mm.
There are also roof tiles for special positions particularly where the planes of the several pitches meet.
Roof tiles are hung from the framework of a roof by fixing them with nails.
My apprentice cutting up a peg tile valley.
The tiles are usually hung in parallel rows with each row overlapping the row below it to exclude rainwater and to cover the nails that hold the row below.
Roofs at this pitch would have required torching with mortar from the under side particularly where the roof space needed to be draughtproof.
This requirement varied from area.