A slate roof I am working on

We have been setting up on this for about a week, trying to get the fascia and soffit done so we could work on the roof. Got it. I just love slating, and it is too bad that not too many people know how to do it properly.

If you start wrong, it only gets worse. the owner was on the scaffold with me today and I got to show him how to do it right. Negotiation is so much better than bidding! If it is win/win, there cannot be a loser.

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Nice!

Sounds like someone charged appropriately! ;)

Yeah, I don't need any more "practice", and he insists that it be done right. He doesn't exactly know what that looks like until he sees it and I explain things to him, but he wants to learn and he wants the roof the be a focal point. we can make that happen, and it will work the way it is supposed to. Just a fun project!

I'd throw in some random 26's or larger to give it accents too. :)

Nice job OS! Looks awesome so far.

Very funny Tinner! Subtle is the word!

Nothing like a slate roof! We will expect more pics / updates OS as time allows you.

Any bass in that pond? :laugh: I think a good cast off your scaffold just mike make it.

Wow, big house OS. Just a question, for a house that you named the specs, why is the drip edge so small and with nail penetrations so close to the edge? Why isn't it under the underlayment? I'm just ignorant and curious, the smallest I ever use for tile goes up 8 1/2 ". Usually it's 12".

CTS, Yes, those ponds are full of fish. He has a fish feeder in each one of them (4) They stocked them when they were dug a year or so ago. It is a good 100 yards from the scaffold to the pond, so you would have to have a heck of an arm.

Woody, We put the bevel beneath the drip to start the slant for the slates. All the drip edge has to do it cover that. there is some I and W beneath the titanium at the bottom and it is adhered to the deck there. I put the titanium over everything so that it does not stick to the bottom of the slate. It lets them move if they want to and we had to dry the building in last fall when the weather closed in. snow everywhere up here.

Once the scaffold was set, we had to install a copper vented soffit detail and the cement board fascia. They had installed everything in the snow last fall, but we had to straighten it all out this spring once we had the access. All of that was done after the roof was dried in. If you put the slate on right, you really don't need any underlayment beneath it. I still like to install some and the woven synthetics really hold up. Wider drip would have been a waste of money.

The decking is 5/4 wolmanized, so it is really solid. It is going to be nice when it is done. I will post more pics as we proceed.

I have been using mid-states HT a lot for slate and tile. It has a woven with exterior that holds up pretty good. 6 months and no excess wear that I have noticed.

Only problems I had is the vents they put tru the roof and some they put in the valley and then tried to cover up their mess. I dont know how to invert the pic or to lazy to try.

It was really weirding me out looking at it that way.

Thanks clover. I was having a hard time wrapping my head around that one too.

Yeah Max. We used HT with titanium over it on the big tile job I did a few years ago. Anything with asphalt on it will stick to the slates or tiles and make it a bitch to try and repair them in the future. As long as the surface is a slip sheet, it will work just fine.

You want all of the penetration's through the roof before you start to install slate or tile. The carpenters and plumbers haven't a clue how to do it and they make a BIG mess. better to dry it in and wait. Having a material that will hold up for 6 months is amazing. Good stuff.

Hey os what are those ...looks like penetrations , in your pics, the things under the jacks? Looks like they come straight out of the slate? Its buggin me, what the heck are they? hmmmmm

SLTP Those are the ice guards to protect the gutters, but especially the doors beneath them at ground level. If you look at the pictures again, the 5th from the last shows them up closer and you can see one just installed where the copper bar is nailed through the joint in the slate, and the bronze eagle is attached to the bottom of the bar.