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I hoped you wouldn't have the blues for too long, and as Roger said, your cloud has a silver lining in the form of getting the practicalities sorted then being able to perfect things at your leisure.
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S'wot we're here for Nige...
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Hi Nige,
I just replaced an entire roof on my house. The old tiles were handmade 'peg' tiles, held on by copper nails, plus a load of non-matching ones from various repairs over the last 150 years. Since it wasn't listed we decided to go for a 'handmade style' modern nib tile. The benefit was twofold:

- the tiles are faster to fit, since only every fifthrow is nailed - keeps the labour cost down (as opposed to peg tiles that have a pair of nails in each)
- I now have ~4000 old handmade peg tiles from the old roof that I can probably sell on - hopefully at a small profit, who knows.

Keep the faith - you'll get the car built it one way or another.

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Thanks for the words of advice & encouragement, it's appreciated. I've had some quotes from other companies & they all seem to come out around the same sort of price for labour content. The stickler is that they don't know how many tiles are likely to break when they take them off. I've seen some of them & they appear to be very brittle. I might go for completely new tiles as opposed to trying to reclaim the ones that are on there, as at £6.00 odd a tile it could get costly if a load of them break. They're costing it out to a possibility of 20% breakage. There's not a lot of difference in price between matching the tiles & fitting all new, but the downside is that it might be out of character to the other bungalows there with different new tiles. The roof on this one is like an orange/ochre/terracotta sort of colour which when new looked really nice. The idea was/is to remove the tiles from the rear & fit them to the front so that from the roadside they all look original & then put the newer tiles on the rear of the roof.

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That sounds like a good plan. I remember doing all this um-ing and ah-ing about tiles before we took the roof off. At the time I was really worried that making the wrong choice might be a total disaster. I tossed up paying quite a lot extra for real handmade tiles, versus mid-range handmade style. Eventually took the plunge for the latter, and you know what? I've only looked at the new roof about 4 times since we did the work!
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Yup. When I built (project-managed) our house, amongst all the concrete raft work and steel frame design I made sure the garage was finished well before the house. Didn't want to risk running out of money.
For the garage roof we used a resin-slate tile. Very clever - held on with stainless steel clips nailed to the trusses, and interlocking. Dry ridge with no mortar. The tiles are made of ground slate dust set in resin. We have Welsh slate on the house itself, and you can't tell the difference 15 years on (unless you look at the old invoices!). I seem to remember they are made in many colours.
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[quote="Roger King"
Enough of this. Like the wheels.[/quote]

They're away having Pauls old Goodyears fitted to them as I write this :D I'm going to use them as "rollers" whilst the car is being built, thanks Paul :D :D I Did a big road trip yesterday of 530 miles to collect bits & pieces for the car. I've now got a '67 289 block, needing some rods & a crank to take it to 302 (anybody got a spare 302 crank or rods?) I'm going to put this in the car for the IVA test as due to its age, it only requires a visual on the smoke test & then at a later stage substitute it for the 347 cu in motor with Weber downdraughts. I've also got a toploader & scattershield sorted, along with another pair of Performer RPM heads, I've found a pair of worn black leather Cobra seats, I'm picking up the LeMans hardtop next weekend, oh & I've got a pair of front indicators :lol: I've found someone that works on Jags for a living & he's happy to rebuild the front & rear axles for me with all new service parts, so all in all, things are finally coming together.

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I had the tyres that paul gave me mounted to my wheels,...it feels like Xmas around here :D


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I'm going to use these to use as "rollers" to set the chassis & suspension up. I'll then get some Avons of the same size when the time comes for the IVA test
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They do look the doggie's danglies don't they. :twisted:

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