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How to salavge slat roof from home.
It won t require much maintenance either.
Determine whether they are all in one area or.
Let the wet areas dry and then apply the patch to the underside of the roof with a putty knife.
The good news about changing your slate roof is that you get a new roof which can mean a giving your house a different look or repairing leaks.
Some of the slates on our roof seem to be flaking or peeling.
Stand across the street from your house and look at the roof through a pair of binoculars.
We have two experienced insured crews who do slate removal.
But they ve never fallen out of favor with me.
We reclaim and salvage tile and slate roofs all throughout the united states.
What do we do with used slate.
Slate roofs are like tile roofs in that they are both expensive and heavy.
The bad news is that removing your slate roof will cost more than removing most other types of roofing.
It cannot be added to a home that isn t built specifically for slate.
Locate the cracked pockmarked slipping or missing tiles.
Throughout the process we will ensure to keep you well informed as to values procedures schedules and all of the pertinent ins and outs in order to make this.
Now a roofer tells us that our roof is a soft slate and needs to be replaced.
The house is 60 years old and when we bought it we were told that slate is a 100 year roof.
We buy used roofing slate on or off the roof.
You tore down a building and salvaged the slates.
Use enough of the roof patch to liberally cover the leaky area.
Slate roofs came into ohio in the middle 1880s and fell out of favor about 1920.
We have been buying used slate all over the northeast for more than 20 years.
So you have roofing slates for sale.
Or you tore off a perfectly good slate roof because a roofing contractor talked you into it.
Though it s costly a slate roof can last for a lifetime.
A new slate or salvaged slate which should match the size shape texture and weathered color of the old slate is then slid into place and held in position by one nail inserted through the vertical joint between the slates in the course above and approximately one inch below the tail of the slate two courses above.
At a cost between 800 to 1600 per square slate is extremely expensive.
If you have a barn house church or any building with a slate roof on it we are interested.
Exactly how much it will cost will vary from region to region and from season to season.
