How To Slate A Turret Roof

Note the robin perched on the roof apex stud this stud is used to attach a thin gauge wire for marking out slate courses and position.

How to slate a turret roof.

A natural slate roof truly is a unique piece of art as opposed to an engineered rubber fake slate that comes in a turret package box packaged in labeled bundles. Vermont gray black slate roof on this regal cut stone residence. Crookston upright inc kalamazoo mi. Its slate turret resembles what you may find on a castle.

325 upper road po box 134 poultney vermont 05764 802 287 4333 fax. How many roofing contractors are up to the task of repairing or replacing the slate on a round turret. First courses of slating on the main roof note the undereaves slates fitted upside down to form a drip with the first course slates. A traditional roof containing a conical or turret tower can be a challenge for the roofer accustomed to working with straight angles and sides.

I have never done a turret may of read this somwhere or talked to someone at one time who told me this run the first row of slate then chalk lines from the spot where the slates butt together to the peak then chalk lines from the center of each slate to the peak seems this would give you a pattern for the layout and angles to trim the slate to fit the roof seems it would work but have not. The turret slates are cupa heavy spanish slates with. Rafters are chosen carefully no bows or warping cross blocking between rafters is cut with precise angles on the ends with the radius of the turret cut on the outer edge and sheathing is run. We ve all worked slate around a bump in a roof keeping the roof as functional and good looking as possible but a turret is a stringent task master.

A simple pitched roof has at least two sides and a hip roof has four. The width of the first course slates was 12 a very heavy thick slate to. The round or turret style roof is basically a hip roof with an infinite number of sides. As a third generation union carpenter and also a roofer with my father since i was barely old enough to walk i have been around roofing and building for about 52 of my 56 years.

Conical slate roofing simplified. The following is a graduated slate roof with slate on the same course having the same width. Turret roof difficulties absolute roof solutions vancouver duration. The framing and sheathing have got to be good.

Back to project gallery. But to start at the beginning framing and sheathing is everything. When comparing natural slate vs composite rubber slate think of your roof s life expectancy. Cut stone castle with slate turret.