Be sure to watch Will's full video where he tackles the step flashing on this project: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NWMkJ_M34B4.html
Brilliant roofer. This is what roofing is all about, probably not cheap. But takes his time and does everything to perfection. Well done Will you are a honour to roofing
There is something very satisfying watching a skilled artisan, who takes a pride in his work, doing what he has learned over years of acquiring his ‘art’. The fact that he does not damage what he is trying to create in the process, is no accident. Avoiding clumsy moves or misplaced steps is as important as careful measurement and preparation. Complicated and compound angles require agile mathematics, particularly when accommodating the inevitable variation of build. The older the age of the original building, the more likely it’s not going to be symmetrical. Thanks Wills for showing you and your team in action. It’s a nice job that looks superb.
Love your vids mate, one thing you messed up that slating. Almost bond on bond at the top of the vally. Crazy because everything else is spot on. Why didnt you work it out ?
@@davidyip5557Aye, I see that at 13:39 mins, a full width instead of 2 narrow ones would have fettled that. Well spotted, but an absolutely awesome job overall one must say (and I think NHL5 lime should have been used on the stone copings too, incidentally, but not knocking the job overall).
Excellent job. The only problem I see is to the right at the top of the valley at 15:01, the seams almost meet up. I'm unfamiliar with slate work so I wouldn't know how to fix that without vertically chalking the right side of the dormer using the slated left side as a template. But I really admire the hard work put into this job.
You're right about the side lap, there's probably a piece of lead underneath. Marking perpendicular lines on the roof battens can help avoid this. I feel picky mentioning it - I've learnt a lot of tips from Will, and don't give my time for free to assist/educate others. He's clearly an excellent roofer.
After doing a full back to brick house renovation over the past 2 years, I would consider myself a very experienced DIY’er. Now at the point where the roof needs doing, and your video’s have given me the knowledge and confidence to give it a go myself. Thank you for these top quality videos, keep it up! Subscribed and definitely going to be a regular watcher 👍🏼
I can't afford a new roof but need a valley releading. I said to my mate who is gonna do it, can you not put felt underneath the lead? he said yes. I questioned it tho my self as there is obviously a reason why they don't in the first place. This video confirms it for me as it will sweat 👍
It is a shame when you don't get the service you'd expect from a professional trade. Will is an awesome guy and an exceptional tradesman, and wouldn't leave anything but perfection. All the best, John 👷🏻♂️
Loved it. I watch a lot of construction videos that tell you how to do a job, step by step. I’m never going to re-slate a roof myself so sometimes I just want to know what is involved so should I ever need a roofer to do it for me, I know what’s to expect. I wish more videos took this approach. Excellent thank you..
That video was a masterpiece! Hugely entertaining and wonderful to see the process from roofer's nightmare to a beautifully finished slate roof. I loved your positive, friendly attitude and great teaching skills. I came to the video to find out how to safely move, walk, stand and sit on my slate roof so I can drop a chimney liner down for a woodburner. I was carefully watching to see how you positioned your self working on the roof without damaging tiles but ended up learning a lot more about roof construction and renovation. Many thanks for making and sharing the video, Will. You are the King of the roofers!
Just started a job with foam sprayed on the slate nightmare is an understatement 😂😂 I had no choice but to smash them all the foam was wrapped around the batten and everything feel your pain. 70 bin bags of foam.
I have done roofing for 35 years here in Texas. From wood shakes rough and 18" perfections, clay tile cement tile, but never no slate. I'am retired now but watching your videos brings back some good memories of my roofing days, good job especially on the flashing work.
Great video! Wish I'd got into roofing when I was younger. A few things confused me, so I have a couple of questions... 1) I always thought the roof felt had to have a slight dip in between the rafters so any rain that got though a broken slate would pool into that dip and run all the way to the bottom...otherwise it could run/spread any which way on the way down including over where the new rafters are nailed through the felt, compromising the watertightness...is that not really necessary? 2) Why is the wood you installed blue? Waterproofing treatment or something? 3) Why did you install cut slates on the vertical behind the lead step flashing? Thanks for taking the time to film this job.
Anyone watching this whose roof needs work will absolutely be wanting these guys to come and do it. If you have never seen such things, you will see exactly what makes an excellent job. Will will go far....
Didn’t do an excellent job he got the bond wrong he should of struck the roof out a proper slater would never slate a roof with out striking it off first
Amazing work. I have just been ripped off with cowboys leaving a dreadful, almost laughable mess. I just wish Will and his guys did roofing in my area. Excellent video very detailed cheers
Epic video. Thanks. My dad was a roofer and I spent many happy times helping him out as a kid growing up in the 70s. Thanks for the memories Will, there is so much more to this trade than people realise. Stay safe.
Im a sparky & am just about to start solar installs for 2023. I was looking for some vids on working with slate, cutting solar brackets in & found this, Just watched whole vid, your a credit to your game Will, shame you dont live in Maidstone!
I've been roofing for 2 years now and you my friend know your business, i'd love to work for/with someone as clued-up as yourself, i bet you are very proud of the work you and your gang do cos you are perfectionists the best at what you do in my opinion.
Great videos! Does anyone have a recommendation for the best underlay for slate? I'm struggling to find reviews as most membrane companies demonstrate using their product with battens (the English way) therefore allowing for an air gap between membrane and tile/slate, they seem to suggest this is important, so whats the recommended membrane designed to be sandwiched between sarking?
If it is traditional slate then over fascia vents, breathable membrane and dry ridge system is fine but you need to cut out 30mm of the membrane either side of the ridge tree, if man made then you need counter battens or a non breather felt, hope this is useful, please see the Marley roof site for more x
enjoy your videos. wondering why you took off the roof boards and replaced with membrane only, dosent the roof boards give more protection and insulation, couldnt thay have gone under the membrane?
These geezers are spot on & a do a marvelous 1st class job with real pride in their work. A friend & I are planning on doing my roof, but re-slate using the good original removed ones, plus remainder using good second hand ones. Cannot stand the sight of those horrible cheap clay pan tile things, pile of crap!. So hats off to these guys for giving us some inspiration to tackle these jobs. Noticed they used a slaters hammer, but I've bought a slate ripper tool for getting the slates off. Not sure if I've got the right tool for the job now after having watched this. Loved the video, cheers :-) .
I'm not trying to pick fault here but you haven't graded the slates thick medium thin and check out time stamp 15:02 you are half a slate out at the top of the valley and as a result its bond on bond mate. You should have struck the roof out for your bonds and worked it out down the other side of the valley. Also you dont nail lead with ally nails they corrode away because of dissimilar metals you should always use copper nail when fixing lead
Great work total pride in all his jobs , I guess will didn’t do the back as there’s a short course in there , 2 slates down from the top . Not sure what happened there
Will the Roofer I've seen a lot of roofs stripped and re slatted - But never to your Quality- and your enthusiasm is a real credit to you- take care and do many more.
Another quality job from true professionals. Your attention to every detail is second to none. You should have some very happy customers. Hope they appreciate the top job. Thanks for filming it all too. 👍👍. All the best Pete
Love the workmanship but when I do a valley, I make sure of returns on the felt. By felting first then nailing (with nail gun)battons your asking for a leak. Any experienced roofer would agree. Don’t worry il add a video soon of how to solve this 🙏👍old school works as if you ever miss a joist you can feel it and correct the problem.
Why would you slate both walls up at the same time? Your slates at the top of the valley are bond on bond, this will leak surely. Even the old roof you took off was slated with no bond issues.
@@thetessellater9163 the lower slate is 2 courses down, it holds no relevance to the slates being bond on bond. The water line has to be a minimum of 3 inches by British standards. The slate 2 courses down won’t pick the water up 😂
no need to break the bond above the valley if the roof was strung out right .. also slating up both sides why ? i take it you double nailed in on the left of the slate only and the right on the slate only ....nice tidy job though ill give you that ..
Exactly right he lost the bond and put an in band slate with no side lap side lap should be minimum 75mm there was ways around it if he struck perp lines
Another very nice video showing how it's done. Makes me feel I could do it myself, but I'd screw it up quickly! I have a question which I've posted on another of your videos, but will post here too, to see if anybody can help. I'm in the process of buying a bungalow in the Lincolnshire/Cambridge border area and the survey has shown that there are 30, 40 or perhaps 50 slipped slate tiles, which also includes others that have been repaired using tingles. Some roofers have advised that the individual slipped/broken tiles can be repaired/replaced, but others have advised that it would probably be better to just redo the entire roof. The thinking is that if the nails are failing leading to slipped tiles (presumably because they're not copper?), then as soon as you replace them, others will start to fail for the same reason i.e., rusty nails, so you may as well just do the whole roof now? Does that logic make sense? And I have been told that in the process of taking the existing tiles off, probably 50% will break, hence you would need to buy about 50% new tiles. Does that sound right? Seems from the other video I watched that a loss/breakage rate of 50% would be on the very high side, but according to this video not. And so far, I have only been able to get quote for a whole new roof, not by re-using as many of the existing tiles as possible. Why is that? Why doesn't anybody want to do the job using the old tiles, which is what I want as the customer and which will, presumably, be cheaper? Any advice would be welcomed. Cheers.
I noticed also, directly were the dormer ridge height meets the main roof you can see what appears to be cuts possibly?...strike some perpens and measure it out keeping it square,also it might be my eyesight but the last full course of slate 14:48 at back of roof seems to be on a low gauge(tweel)
How do you know where to lay the blue battens or is it just a standard spacing? Say if you want to lay 24x14 inch welsh slate...what gap would you need for the battens. PS that foam should be illegal.
Could not believe it when they were installing the lead valleys. They nailed all the lead all the way down the tilting fillet. This will result in the lead rising and splitting in about a year. Lead has a high expansion co-efficient and expands and contracts fairly rapidly along its length. The correct method as laid down by the Lead Development Association is only to nail the top one third of the valley and never nail two sections together, this gives you the required expansion requirement. I don’t think these guys are college trained
How come you couldn't save many slates? Was it because that expanding foam was difficult to remove or that the time spent removing it would have not been cost effective?
Iv been a roofer for 17 years and nice to se a nice job being done pal good on u lots of cowboys outthere u love ur pointing don't u I like to dry everything nw days
Can I say just started watching you guys and your work is first class I can tell 100 percent you take pride in your work take note apprentices this is how it’s done
Great work! This is an excellent roofing job! But what about that spray foam? Here in Texas, the underside of the roof is the ideal place for insulation and foam is great for air-sealing. How is that addressed there?
Amazing job.. Such attention to detail in a place where so few get to appreciate it. I'm glad we get to watch the process here. 'If the film crew would like to drop me a beat'... 😂 Legend 😊👌
Video started great but then you ran slates up the abutment and after cut out the brick joints and covered everything in dust, you only need to make a few measurements to enable the the cutting at the felt stage but your worst crime was running slates up in a line meaning you have to wing the others adjoining them as slates need to be fixed both sides to be secure not winged! The end ridge is a finial ridge and should be put on the front most apex x
Could we have a video of will slating a pitched dorma please like the one in this video and also the step flashing video could we have a birdseye view or a head cam to show the markings out he made on the lead more clearer, other than that great video👍👍
Great Job! I’m having to organise the re-slate of our church roof, it’s something of Mansard design with an addition 6 slopes. It’s a massive job and I hardly know how to get the ball rolling. We’re really concerned of the cost and even where to source decent slate. We think the existing slate is random scotch slate and is utterly nail sick. Probably 150 years old! Could you possibly give me some pointers as to how we go about getting a contractor and what we could do to ease the costs. What slate and where we might source the slate. It’s a list 2 building in the heart of Glasgow U.K. I’m a retired carpenter, I’ve done some roof work including fibreglassing but this roof is way too big a project for me and a couple of mates who are handy.
Hi A&E, great channel. I own a small building company and am looking to expand my business by taking on two apprentice carpenters, I mainly do Home Renovation projects. I currently work by myself and employ subcontractors when I need them, ie Carpenter, Labourer, Spark, Plumber, Tiler, Brickie etc. Would love to know how your company structure works? Who are the core team and who are sub-contractors? Finding and employing good Apprentices? Maybe an interesting topic for the podcast. Thanks guys
Thank you for the kind words Zach! These are some great topics you've highlighted. Something we can definitely explore in future episodes of the podcast 😊👍
