Now that's what you call a slate!

[Roofer]

It wasn't even the biggest on the roof - one was 44" tall by 55" wide

 

[noseall]

that's not a slate, it's a gravestone!

 

[imamartian]

... either that, or you're really really small !

 

[corrie]

Brilliant picture that mate. Whats the detail of slate and quarry? Look at the size of the undereaves

Alex

 

[Mikepeters]

Made and fitted when men were men and thumbs were bl**dy. Imagine a dozen of them on your shoulder, up a ladder in the snow....... eeeee when I were a lad.

 

[datarebal]

Fitted a couple of velux windows in a nurseing home in Hampshire a few years back... bloody heavy!!!!

 

[mdj1]

That pictures taken from a property programme, I saw it the other day, can't remember which one, might have been grand designs.

 

[Roofer]

That picture was taken from my camera - certainly not from a property programme.

The job was re-roofing a converted stable block at the rear of a pub in Masham North Yorkshire

And as I said that picture wasn't of the biggest slate - one was 44" high by 55" wide

 

[mdj1]

I swear, i saw that exact same picture on a property program in the last few weeks. How spooky!

 

[Woodster66]

I swear, i saw that exact same picture on a property program in the last few weeks. How spooky!

I think if it had been from a TV program then they would have edited out the fag in his right hand

 

[Click-Sure]

Quite common in the cotswolds too, the states at the bottom are like tombstones and the ones at the ridge are like thumbnails.

 

[Roofer]

Just thought it was worth bumping

 

[cumbrianroofer]

is that not sandstone we often get them that size up this way not nice to lay at all lol

 

[ashleysroofing]

used alot of them mate some come as big as half tonne up this way i buy them buy wieght not per tile and there called a teesdale slate or tombstone slate and are pegged with bits of brush shank