Slate Menu

Sloping Edge

Cut slates as necessary and interleave with lead soakers to form a close, weathertight abutment. Fix soakers by turning down over the head of each slate. Ensure that lead flashings are neatly dressed down over soakers immediately after slating is complete.

Sloping Edge

Top Course

Turn underlay 100mm up abutment. Finish slating with a head-nailed short course to maintain guage. Ensure that flashings are fixed immediately after slating is complete.

Top Course

Tiled Ridge

Lay a length of underlay over ridge to overlap general underlay by not less than 150mm. Finish slating with a head-nailed short course to maintain gauge. Make weathertight with ridge tiles laid to a true line with edges and joints solidly bedded in mortar, neatly struck off flush as the work proceeds. Fill ends of ridges at gables with mortar and slips of slate finished flush. Mortar for bedding ridge tiles, 1:3 cement:sand pigmented to approved colour.

Tiled Ridge

Metal Roll Ridge

Code 4 or 5 lead ridge, 460 to 500mm wide, 1.5 to 1.8 metre lengths with welted joints. Lead tack 50mm wide at 150mm centres, under timber roll. Horizontal laps at 150mm.

Metal Roll Ridge