Recent content by Cottagedoup

Hello, I'm doing up a stone cottage in West Cork Ireland. We're working on one small room that will be a utility room and after smashing out the broken up concrete slab that was half covering the room and digging down about 3 inches of clay and rubble we hit bedrock. I had hoped to lay a...

ahh grand yep that makes sense... I'll run a couple extra battens underneath to strengthen up the verge. I'm going to embed some metal in the walls and fashion up some steel bars to hold down every other slate too, which should help with edge wind- lift. I didn't get slate and half's in my order...

the slates are 250x500.. by some board in between the battens do you mean a board running up the roof perpendicular to the battens set under the battens on top of the wall?, or boards run in in plane with the battens running the same way, not sure i can picture it

Thanks I've been able to clear things up a bit doing more research last night. I think it makes sense to do as you said and just slate over the wall and then either make up and embed some metal to clamp down every third slate as they do sometimes, or if the pandemic goes on for another couple...

replying to detarebal, yes i've got something similar to what they do in donegal, way down south in west cork. instead of tin and concrete i've slate and limecrete.

So i hope these photos make some sense. I'm trying to figure out what's the working process for bedding the last row of slates in the lime mortar, as well as how far the slate should extend over the 2ft rock wall. Should the slates end where the purlins end (i.e half way across the wall) or...

Hello new to forum. We've just found ourselves proud owners a bunch of derelict cottages and are isolating onsite working away during all the madness. The cottages are stone rubble walls, we got the roof done up to the underlayer and are working on fixing the stone supporting the purlins, using...