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.

https://picasaweb.google.com/crookston.john4/Chelsea?authkey=Gv1sRgCLq2l86Y9PjIiQE#6005655185913458882

Pattern X. Where are you from? We have a lot of snow guards on the roof, just over the doorways though. Here are the rest of the pictures I took as we were finishing up the roof and gutters. We have to install the downspouts yet, but we will wait till the brick is finished and washed before we do that. What a fun project.

https://picasaweb.google.com/crookston.john4/ChelseaSlateRoofing?authkey=Gv1sRgCI2___6w6pnzqwE#6046112425214758642

snow guards bro

Nice job!

Awesome. Thanks John.

Thanks Hotari!

Mike, Thanks also! You are right, it will be reflecting. High parapets too! My brother's website is WWW.classicgutters.com

they have everything you would ever need and it is all top shelf stuff too. Hey, my cousins have one of his half round machines in Akron if you want some chop and drop done any where close to that neck of the woods.

That's sure pretty.

I find white roofs to be much hotter than black. On a large roof, you can walk across the white onto black and feel the temperature drop, due to the lack of reflection. That double whammy can get to ya in a hurry when there's no breeze.

What is your brother's copper website?

Nice work Old School, I really like the slate and copper

The water based adhesive works rather well with the rough OSB surface for one thing, and the owner is going to be sitting up there with chairs so I wanted to have a hard surface beneath the rubber to support them. It also made the curves of the tapered system flow better. There were a lot of angles coming form all directions into the scuppers. What fun!

Great work, beautiful system.

On the EPDM, why did you go with OSB rather than Densdeck or similar?

The birds are great! If they come painted, my sister does that for him. The best way to have one of his half round machines is to do "chop and drop" for all of the other gutters contractors around. Talk to him the next time you need to order some of the birds and tell him that his brother John told you to. You have to be able to keep that machine running to make it pay, but it is like printing money when it is. It is a superior machine, well built and designed, and the customer support is excellent there. Try it, you will like it and make money.

Nice work. I just bought a 6" gutter machine. Maybe one day I will get a half round machine. Just to much money for me to invest in. We still are installing one of your brothers birds on every roof and gutter job.

There you go Woody. It is kind of hard to get a water based emulsion to burn. No VOC's either! It has to be 40 degrees and rising to use it though so there are disadvantages. it works great though. Who wants to install rubber in the winter?

That does sound slick, OS. But it probably doesn't have one of the side benefits of the old flammable adhesives. Did you know that if you leave the lid off the can it gels? Then all you need to do is dip the end of a branch in it and light it on fire and you have a torch suitable for looking for Frankenstein in a cave.

That is the water based Mulehide adhesive. You just set the sheet and let it relax and then put the adhesive down on the deck and roll the membrane into it. It is slick as heck! It sets in about a minute if it is hot, but you do have time to work with it a bit. We roll it in and then broom out the air bubbles from the center. The only problem is that the manufacturers recently started to leave the talc off the sheets. You can't unroll them or broom them. what a joke. It comes out nice though.

What adhesive do you use for the rubber, OS? It doesn't look like you are having to coat both the deck and the rubber and wait for it to get tacky.