Slates

[nod]

Myself and my wife got our slating gear out of retirement today and made a start on the workshop 

600 x 300 £2.85 each 

300 used 3100 to go 

[JohnMo]

Looks good, still looks funny, living in Scotland, where they use sharking boards and no battens unless they are using concrete tiles.

 

 

 

[bassanclan]

Looks like your eaves course has run out a bit

[nod]

27 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

Looks good, still looks funny, living in Scotland, where they use sharking boards and no battens unless they are using concrete tiles.

 

 

 

Slates 

[Hobbiniho]

looks good so far, do you have any vertical lines to make sure you keep your spacing even? i always enjoyed working with slate roofs although up here it was direct to sarking

[oldkettle]

On 10/09/2022 at 20:34, nod said:

300 used 3100 to go 

 

Sorry, I have to ask 

Is it 3400 slates for workshop only? Or will it (hopefully) cover the main house? 

[Simplysimon]

looks good, should have gone with hooks though, nice and easy to replace any. bend hook, slide slate out slide new slate in on a slate ripper to catch the top of the batten, bend hook back, job done. try that with double nailed slates.

[makie]

3 hours ago, Simplysimon said:

looks good, should have gone with hooks though, nice and easy to replace any. bend hook, slide slate out slide new slate in on a slate ripper to catch the top of the batten, bend hook back, job done. try that with double nailed slates.

 

Repairing a double nailed slate is easy if you know what you're doing. It's a 2 minute job.

[Simplysimon]

18 hours ago, makie said:

 

Repairing a double nailed slate is easy if you know what you're doing. It's a 2 minute job.

please enlighten me

 

[Iceverge]

Simple

 

You get a long hacksaw blade and spend half an hour trying to cut the slate nails. 

 

Then carefully bend some old fragile slates out of the way whilst trying to prise the remains of the broken slate out. Despite your best try another 7 slates crack in the process. 

 

Whilst doing this you see the battens are completely rotten so you carefully start to cut out the damaged sections. 

 

Unfortunately this reveals the felt is in bad condition and full of holes. Cursing your luck you decide to decamp to the van to consider your options and avoid the unforecast downpour. 

 

Just then a gust whips yet more slates from the roof and blows one through the back window of a van marked "militant  bat surveys". On que, perhaps disturbed by the din, an endangered " Green hairy bikini bat" emerges from a hole in the felt and lands on the windscreen wipers of said bat surveyors conveyance. 

 

Disheartened and defeated you go to turn the ignition key and retreat further to the pub. B*ollocks the van won't start.  Walking home, you reach your house sometime in the dark only to be greated by the smoking remains of your torched semi-d and a note saying your Mrs has eloped with her yoga teacher. 

 

As the tears and snot drip from your nose you think back to where it all went wrong. 

 

Should have used slate hooks. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by Iceverge

[Canski]

32 minutes ago, Iceverge said:

 

 

Just then a gust whips yet more slates from the roof and blows one through the back window of a van marked "militant  bat surveys". On que, perhaps disturbed by the din, an endangered " Green hairy bikini bat" emerges from a hole in the felt and lands on the windscreen wipers of said bat surveyors conveyance. 

 

that was the best bit.  ! I’d like to see a pallet full of 7newton blocks blow through my batmans car. 

 

 

 

[makie]

2 hours ago, Simplysimon said:

please enlighten me

 

 

Ask any qualified roofer.

I am one. It's a simple job.

Two ways. Either the same method here and install a slate hook or simply take one nail from each of the above slates also to allow them to turn. Then double nail the repaired slate and glue the two above back into position.

[Simplysimon]

2 minutes ago, makie said:

install a slate hook

so not as installed

2 minutes ago, makie said:

glue the two above back into position

and a bodge

[makie]

1 minute ago, Simplysimon said:

so not as installed

and a bodge

 

It's a repair. it's in the name.

And no glue is not a bodge. If the slate has a fixing already then it can be used. Unless you want to tell architects working on historic Scotland buildings they are wrong.