Hello,

I’m in Southern CA. I have a tile roof. I had a leak on a small sloped portion of roof above my kitchen nook. I’ve replaced the plywood, underlayment and flashing. I’m ready to lay the tiles down but in spite of my before pictures (to reference when I was ready to lay the tile down again) I’m confused.

I can get the tiles to lay flush. The only thing that’s different than before is I added a metal bird stop (opposed to cement). At first I thought the bird stop wasn’t the right one but the roofing company looked at my tiles and confirmed it’s the correct bird stop.

I can’t tell - are my tiles spaced correctly? And - when I add the second row, I’m noticing the tiles don’t sit flush on the previous row. Where did I go wrong and how do I fix this?

I want to re-iterate - this is my first time trying to nail down tile. I’m trying to teach myself whenever I need to do a repair.

Photo 1-3: these are before photos to reference how the tile looked before.…