Roof With Slats

Our 16 quarries and 22 processing plants enable us to offer any kind of natural slate for roof tiles or facades making our range of slate roofing products the most complete on the market.

Roof with slats.

Roofing slates range one in every three natural slates installed worldwide bears our brand. Intricate roofs have many parts that incorporate several of the basic roof designs such as a gable roof sitting atop a gambrel or variations of the gable valley roof design using one or a variety of different types of roof trusses also see our very detailed diagrams showing the different parts of a roof truss. The felt provided a temporary watertight roof until the slate could be installed atop it. 125 to 175 years.

May 22 2014 explore mary wallace s board slate tile projects followed by 199 people on pinterest. Roof battens or slating lath 18mm x 36mm 3 4 x 11 2 often called slating lath or slating batten 25mm x 38mm 1 x 11 2 commonly referred to as tiling lath or tiling batten but also used for slating. Slate from different mines has different average slate roof life expectancies with proper installation and regular maintenance. Beginning in the late nineteenth century asphalt saturated roofing felt was installed atop solid wood sheathing.

Vermont and new york slates. The gauge is in fact the same as the margin which is the length of the slate exposed. Touring style offers a drop down front pipe for light bars and a tailored look to the sloped roof. Slates with these ribbons have the shortest service life about 75 to 90 years.

See more ideas about slate tile tile projects slate. On roofs with concrete decks slates were typically nailed to wood nailing strips embedded in the concrete. 100 to 200 years. Also different architectural styles will use the same type of roof.

With the touch of a button louvers go from fully open to fully shut for the ultimate shade cover solution. 25 or 30mm x 50mm 1 11 4 x 2 mostly used in newer spec tiled roof s. 175 years or more.