Traditional Slate Roof Construction

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Traditional slate roof construction.

Roof slates are often mistakenly referred to as tiles and vice versa. Slate is strong and has very good weather resistance as well as low water absorption meaning that it withstands freezing temperatures well. Slate has been used for this purpose for centuries. Residential and commercial roofing repairs replacement.

Slate has been used for hundreds of years as a roof covering but only after the industrial revolution and the construction of the railway network did they become common outside of the slate mining areas. With over 10 years of experience in roofing and custom copper work tsr offers the best solutions for all kinds of roofing related problems. Slate is a metamorphic rock which is highly dense and striated. Design and installation manual 2010 edition.

Published more than 85 years ago slate roofs has long been the essential go to guide for determining material quantities roof layout specification data and construction details. The national slate association nsa dormant since the great depression reorganized in 2002 and took on the task of producing an update of the 1926 manual slate roofs. Scottish slate has a well earned reputation as a long lasting material. Traditional slate roofing is a slate roofing company based in cleveland ohio.

It is formed in the ground from sediment compressed under extremely high pressure. Slate is one of the most widely used building materials in scotland. Roof tiles are made from materials such as clay or concrete rather than slate.