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This website is provided by Joseph Jenkins, Inc., The Slate Roof Experts A few Neanderthal Tracks (and examples of how to erase them from your roof)
The slate roof above is ... well, what can we say? A picture is worth a thousand words.
Above is a 30' valley on a church that has been tarred not only in the valley, but also on the adjacent slates - an incredibly dumb thing to do. The tar dams the water so it runs under the slates and into the building when it is applied over the slates like that. The valley, of course, leaked. The above photo shows us set up to remove the valley on this Vermont "sea green" slate roof in western PA. We replaced the valley with copper (below) , but traces of the previous Neanderthals remain.
Below are some photos of typical Neanderthal repairwork. Face-nailed slates, tarred slates, wrong color (type) of slate, wrong shape of slates, etc. There is absolutely no excuse for this sort of ugly and incompetent work.
Chimneys are popular targets of Neanderthals and you will see all sorts of abuse done to them. The photos below show typical situations that we run into day in and day out, along with a couple of photos of our repairs.
The above chimney on a residence in western PA, sea green slate roof, reflashed with 16 ounce copper.
The before and after shot above does not show the copper ridge we installed to finish the job off. |
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