11/06/2026
Concrete tile's everywhere round the Bay, and fair enough. Tough, looks good, been up there thirty years and counting. Thing is, "been up there thirty years" and "still doing its job" aren't the same.
Get up top on these and it's almost never the big obvious stuff. It's a hairline crack in a tile you'd never pick from the ground. A bit of movement over the years that's opened something up. Tiles slipped a hair out of line. Looks dead normal from the street. But water gets in there, and once it's under the tile it does what water does. Runs along the timber till it finds somewhere to sit.
That's the catch with tile. It doesn't drip on you straight away. It just quietly gets on with it up top, into the timber, sitting in the insulation, and you're none the wiser till there's a stain on the ceiling. And where it shows inside is almost never where the fault actually is, so you end up chasing the mark instead of the cause.
By then you're not paying to fix a couple of tiles. You're paying for the ceiling, the insulation, the lot. Caught it early and it'd have been a fraction of that.
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