has anyone worked with slate as sidewall shingles?
I had the opportunity to do so and must say it was sooooo much fun and went up very fast. Not to mention it looks absolutely gorgeous on the post and beam home it now lives on.
At first I was, lets say PETRIFIED! at the prospect of working with slate. Slate is much more durable than I thought. Also, I started drilling the holes but grew impatient with that tedious process so I picked up the slate hammer and within a few minutes I had a new friend throughout the course of the job.
Has anyone else had an unexpected experience with slate?
Richard
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are pictures a possibility?
They better be, there's someting in th by-laws about teasing us like that
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Pictures are a definite possibility. Perhaps within the next couple days.
R-
yeh I can't speak too loudly cuz it aint one of my skills as yet ( w/ my tail between my legs )
25 years ago did about 16sqs of mansard in slate for Yale university with 3 diamond courses in each section between windows lotta flashin and cuttin, glad you got the point, LOL makes a nice countersink too. How much head lap did you use for verticle application?
John,
Here are some shots of slates cut to a hexagonal pattern to be used as siding this Summer on my garage.
The gable end shot is the end view of my billiard room.
Notice that since these are all salvaged slates,and cut to a pattern-the original exposure line is visible,since it had time to weather for 80 to 100 years prior to my intervention.
every billiard room should be sided in slate!very nice
our victorian gable ends are sided w/ the dogear octagon shingles and the starlings just busted through one about their breastful in diameter - not through your slate they wouldn'tI like the looks of your stash / potential for much more fine workthanks for the pics!
John,
You know what the cobbler's children have for footgear don't you?
My wife thinks those slates should have been gracing the garage walls a year and a half ago.
I'm going to order some salvaged unfading greens and reds so that I can make polychrome patterns on the garage walls.
Thanks for looking.
Walter
Love it!
Now I know what to do with the 3 crates of slate I lugged home. 80 yrs old, never installed. Cleaning out barns yields interesting things sometimes.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!