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Do those tiles have a watergate if there slates they have negative headlap

I've 19 years experience as a roof slater and there the best vents ive used the adapter is square and has a round part at the bottom

there's a separate attachment you must buy for the ubbink this slots onto the vent and allows you to hook up extractor fans etc to it

I find the ubink ones the best also has a channel down them to prevent water fanning into the hole you've cut http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/220550049500?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla

change the gutters to cast iron

normally for sarking board we don't use sheets of ply its normally 150mm wide soft wood sarking layed with a 2mm gap between each length normal felt used for tiling does the job, Leaving the 2mm gap between the sarking will allow your roof to breath and allow the wood to expand and contract...

Sheeting a roof before slating or tiling is pretty much the done thing in Scotland. it will be more secure when you get broken tiles etc you wont see daylight coming in you wont get ceilings coming down due to broken tiles, over all your roof will be more secure

flashband has aluminium inside it

And a don't think its a topic allot of people would write on

And a don't think its a topic allot of people would write on

yes there's no quarries open any more but studys have been done about them being re-opened

does it have to be about the roof or could it be about the material

whats the paper to be aimed at

do your paper on that

Ballachulish slate

can be risky messing about with cover/head-lap if you aint experienced at doing it

as standard i do 2inch if shallower pitch i start giving the cover more

theres certain way to change gauges to when your dropping down sizes and you start longest at bottom always and aim to get a minimum side lap of 2 inch and always aim to get 2 inch cover past the nail hole

i can give more detail on tips when laying if needed

first off remove slates , then dress/re-cut i tend to do all the tails of the slates re/hole any that need new holes and cut off unsightly holes like big looking ones, Make a size stick easy way is put a nail through a piece of tile batten an inch down from the top, from the nail mark down 11...