Hi, I have a small 6 x 4 pitched roof on a workshop that I want to slate to match an adjoining roof. The roof is OSB board with roofing felt at present. Can I nail the slates that I have straight onto the the roof without removing felt and without battens.
Slates onto felted, boarded roof
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No.
Water, dirt and insects will collect under the slates and accelerate rot and damage.
You can leave the felt and board in place, the felt will be a secondary protection. This is a good quality way of finishing a roof, and normal in Scotland.
On a sarking boarded roof, you start with counterbattens running down the slope of the roof, and nail your slaters battens crossways on top of those. This enables water and rubbish to drain down the slope between the counterbattens.
Luckily, treated roofing batten is very cheap by the bundle. If you can be bothered to drill pilot holes, it is less liable to split.
Water, dirt and insects will collect under the slates and accelerate rot and damage.
You can leave the felt and board in place, the felt will be a secondary protection. This is a good quality way of finishing a roof, and normal in Scotland.
On a sarking boarded roof, you start with counterbattens running down the slope of the roof, and nail your slaters battens crossways on top of those. This enables water and rubbish to drain down the slope between the counterbattens.
Luckily, treated roofing batten is very cheap by the bundle. If you can be bothered to drill pilot holes, it is less liable to split.
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The nails would bounce around trying to nail individual slates to osb, you would end up breaking more than you lay.
Slates are laid direct to sarkin and 1f felt in Scotland have been for centuries but the cement fibre and man made stuff all laid to batten/counter batten.
Slates are laid direct to sarkin and 1f felt in Scotland have been for centuries but the cement fibre and man made stuff all laid to batten/counter batten.
If you have to join the plane of another roof you would be better screwing them.
This is true and other places too.
You might consider hook fixing, its easy and you only end up with 50% of the punctures. A large part of France and Germany use this method...Not into OSB though
If its mainly for aesthetics then could you not oversail the join with your slates a couple of inches maybe?
Might also need to consider the extra weight.
Might also need to consider the extra weight.
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