Mr and Mrs Triassics New Home

"A total of 18 separate roof planes in all! Why oh why did I let the architect talk me into this design? "

 

I feel your pain...

Wowzers thats a big old roofing job ! The style is very different from how I did my roof, I think because so many of your slates are wider than they are longer or laid in “landscape” rather than “portrait” it kind of goes against what I am comfortable with.....  it also looks like they are diminishing slightly to quickly but this may be just the angle of the photo. My problem is I have  a very specific (and limited) concept of what works visually for me....... having spent nearly my whole life being both the designer and builder it’s sometimes hard to grasp there are other ways of doing a job ! ....... I am sure when it’s all done it will look a million dollars and I will be wishing I had done my roof the same as yours. I look forward to seeing it as it progresses. I have included a couple of pics of my roof to show how regional styles vary dramatically, I do honestly think that regional style variation is a good thing but admit to being a bit short sighted or somewhat biased towards what I am familiar with...... anyway great stuff well done old fruit !  

Looks like quite a thick local slate or is that a trick of the light, how many mm thick?

 

In my party of the world a Collyweston slate is common.

That looks great he’s clearly on the ball even with that micro example picture you can see a random pattern but never a gap meeting a gap

Quality!

Looking good.

 

Like original nick names.

 

I remember last summer going up and down the ladder with a handful of slates. From your pictures it would appear to be 'ladders'.

 

On 31/05/2019 at 18:35, Cpd said:

it also looks like they are diminishing slightly to quickly but this may be just the angle of the photo. 

I checked this out with the roofer. He’s diminished the courses faster than normal, as this is a short roof plane next to a long roof plane. He tells me that once the scaffold is removed and you can see both roof planes side by side, “ they will look right”.

Great stuff, sounds like he knows his job, I look forward to seeing the finished product. 

So the roof of the tower is nearly complete, the slates are in and all we need now is the lead man to do the hips.

 

A week later and the Cedral cladding is installed and all we need now is for the scaffold to come down so we can finish the rest of the roof.

All looking very business like, hopefully some good weather for roof work. Keep the pics coming!