I toured Yale College campus last weekend and the guide pointed out the slate tiles on the buildings, commenting on the color variations.
Most of the buildings were constructed in the 1920’s and 30’s in the medieval style of University of Cambridge, England. The guide said that the architect had looked at the first roofs completed, thought the tiles looked too new and uniform, and had ordered them removed and buried for a year in various different mud flats around the harbor at New Haven in order to “age” them by picking up colors from the mud. They were then dug up and installed with the various colors randomly distributed so as to make the buildings look appropriately old.
Is this likely to be true or just a charming myth?
What would be under the tiles of a slate roof in Connecticut that the they could be safely removed for a year?
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What would be under the tiles of a slate roof in Connecticut that the they could be safely removed for a year?
90 lb underlayment or sometimes hotmop on lower pitches. But, it would have been pierced by the slate nails, so a second layer wouldlikely have been added in the interum. Sounds like a collassal waste of time and money to me.
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But you all knew that. I detailed it extensively in my blog.
Are you out there Slateman?Will slate really get permanently stained from being buried in mud?
BruceT
Sounds like a good story. I doubt there is any truth to it , but stranger things have taken place no doubt.
I've never buried any personally so my opinion is worth the same as anyone elses.
Walter