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Very nice work. Usually with the guys I work with in the Boston area we just slap a piece of lead on there as a saddle piece. Dont think theres anything wrong with that necessarily but nice to see that theres a better way
Sorry guys, very expensive way of doing things. Wouldn’t last five minutes where I’m from. Wales , the home of the Worlds premium slate. Those hip fixings are way to flimsy to withstand real weather. 🤷🏻♂️
What I have learned about installing slates and doing them for 20 years now, is that, copper nails is a must, galvanized nails with time, the heads rusts out, making the slate tiles to fall. Another important is you must leave a gap between the slates so water travels threw the gap, having them bud next to each other makes the water travel behind the slate, making it reach the nail holes, if you pay attention the slates being installed are used, you can see the water marks on the nail holes. Never mix copper with galvanized metal, this two metals don’t react well together. Just putting it out there.
This is some great work but, you would literally take over 4 hours just to do 20 feet of valley. By the time you finish one metal roof I can have probably around 3-4 done. I'm not knocking your work at all either it's pretty fucking amazing but time is money. I'm sure you make a very good profit cause you have to customize every panel on site. Great work.
The iron supplies the heat and the solder puddle conducts it to the metal. The iron is plenty hot because the solder is molten within 1.5"of the iron, and the joint is well sweated full. I don't demonstrate it in the video, but if you touched the solder bar to the bare seam in the vicinity of the iron, it would melt
Its already getting dirty. We should be using 1/4 lb stick of saulder. Sold at roofing wholesalers .7 You are using plumbers saulder. You should sell cars .
Great video....I am trying to educate on these details as well...this is true roofing with sheet metal...not the notched and caulked crap you see everywhere these days
How does one repair a failed soldered joint in a chimney cap? It leaks around where the round flue meets the flat part of the cap. I’m unsure if I need to pull the joint apart first to be able to get good adhesion or if I can just add solder.
The craftsmanship is impressive and I'd love to have these guys build me a roof, but I can't imagine the cost given how slow the process is, especially considering the high-skill level required of the installer, relative to one who works with traditional asphalt-based roofing materials. Thanks for sharing this video!
It's for waterproofing, any water that gets through the join stream down the soaker... You should run a bead of silicone 2 inches from the middle join both sides. In the 1800's they used cement
On a new roof it makes sense to use 1 long piece, but on older roofs where they may have settled a bit and have a curve, a long piece wouldn't fit well, and I think he also wanted to show how to use step flashing for when it's a repair and not just a new/ redone installation.
