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looks like its coming in back of chimney to me

go over the trim in lead and then torch felt onto that less chance of burning the plastic

there crap to work with pish poor to cut and bad to hole AVOID

2 INCH M8

What type of slate

Mate ive 19 years experience in roof slating and i can assure you when am doing historic slate work here in Scotland when using ballachulish slate i cant use any slate under 150mm if i do i have to take them out.In times gone by when we was doing random slate we could use inbands and then on...

so in other words you dont put in half cuts you get slate and half if your cuts are going below 150mm wide at abutments etc or generally anything you use a slate and a half

Dosent matter what size the slates are the minimum width of slate clerk of works etc want you to use is 150mm wide they dont want people using inbands, Bachelor slates any more its bad practice ive seen may skipping hundreds of slate because of this on historic work or large sites 150mm is the rule.

Slate min is 150mm you don't get the correct sidelap if you use a piece of slate narrower

overhang the slate 50mm on the verge start slating from the straight side first and use slate and a half on the verges

the course that lands on the join you can dummy hook but nail those slates

post a picture

yeah that was a steep one lol

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Heres some pictures of us staging out a roof with scottish style brackets so you get the idea