How To Repair A Hole In A Slate Roof

Bend the tingle so the bottom end hooks under the slate to hold it in place.

How to repair a hole in a slate roof.

Normally friction alone is enough to hold the lead bib in place. Put the new tile in place and align it. How to replace a cracked broken slate in this video i show how to replace a cracked slate in a few simple steps. The roof is very old and does not have a felt layer under the tiles.

Minerals the building blocks of rocks through their characteristic crystalline structures define the physical properties of the rocks which they compose. Lead bib slate repair if the roof hasn t got too many mistakes a good method of repair is the lead bib it s simply a section of code 3 or 4 flashing lead cut large enough to sit under the faulty slate or bad overlap to make it waterproof and the repair invisible. Make a hole in one end of the tingle and use a short nail to fix it to the batten under the tiles next to the tile you ll be replacing. The last two steps involve trimming the tile to the desired size and then punching two nail holes toward the top of the slate using a formula based on the size and exposure of the slate.

Unfortunately i do not have a photo on hand but the hole is irregularly shaped and is about 10 cm x 10 cm in size. The roof is a slate roof and 2 of the slates seem to have snapped in half leaving a fairly significant hole in the roof. A simple piece of flat aluminum flashing was pushed up under the slates to cover a hole3 observed by the roof inspector repairman. Slate repair with aluminum on a slate roof with a coating of lichens.

Usually simple friction will hold this aluminum or copper repair plate in place for decades.