Major tile manufacturers use and endorse Flexi-point. Pointing failure used to be the perennial annoyance of the roof tile industry, but no longer, thanks to Flexi-point.

Flexi-point is replacing sand and cement pointing right across Australia and New Zealand. This change in modality from traditional materials has been reflected by recent amendments to AS2050-1995 Installation of Roof Tiles by Standards Australia mandating a very rigorous performance test for roof ridge adhesives. After 72 hours of continuous water saturation on the CSIRO test rig, a course of Flexi-pointed ridge tiles recently underwent 10,800 cycles of simulated wind uplift up to 8.3kPa - the equivalent of a cyclone gusting to 260km/h - with no loss of adhesion.

Flexi-point is a pre-mixed, pre-packaged, trowel applied, flexible, and pre-coloured pointing compound. The product is manufactured and distributed in Australia by Flexitech Pty Ltd, Coopers Plains, Brisbane. Made from water based polymers and fillers and is intended to 'feel' like normal cement mortar. It contains no volatile additives and is therefore safe to use. It differs from traditional and inherently brittle cement mortar pointing in that it retains a significant post cure flexibility. This enables it to flex in harmony with roof movements without cracking or breaking away. The product concept has been embraced around Australia and is beginning to be accepted in certain offshore markets, especially those prone to earthquakes (New Zealand and Japan particularly). Cement mortar pointing of tile roof capping is no longer practised in Queensland.

The product closely emulates the 'feel' of traditional mortar. It trowels easily and in all combinations of temperature and humidity will cure to a rain resistant stage much earlier than cement mortar. Roof tilers' readily make the transition from cement mortar to Flexi-point.