Can Anyone Recommend A Good Slater / Roofer?

[Johnny Mac]

Need to get some guttering repaired and a few other bits and pieces done on the roof.

 

Any recommendations in the Aberdeen area?

 

Cheers.

[ChutneyLove]

Archie Morrison, Milltimber.

[Robbie Winters]

Pay Jigot travelling expenses and he will give you this

 

I tiled the New Bankfoot Church/Community hall for Flemings of Lenzie back in '08. It looks like slate but it is in fact an interlocking tile made from 85% crushed slate and 15% resin. The roof is a warm roof with 100mm Kingspan sitting on top of 25mm dressed marine ply, secured with 25mm x 50mm counter batten which in turn are fixed to the strussess with stainless steel Heli-fixings. Monoperm breathable membrane tile batten as normal and tile. I got £3500 for the leadwork off a plumber from Perth so I was getting time and a half for tiling from my cunt of a boss when in fact I was getting £90 per roll of lead I formed the valleys and secret gutters with. The cross is Cedar wood, 2 m high with 4 arms?. One of the Flemings expected me to man handle it up the tile battens and slide it into the specially made stainless steel sleeve, fruit loop. My last job there was to guide the cross into it's point of anchor with the help of a crane and me in a big fuck off cherry picker. I returned to Earth only after etching my name, date and HMFC on the lead cap that is attached to the top of the cross.

 

He is seemingly quite thorough, although tell him to poke his HMFC scratchings

[tommo1903]

No.

Sorry.

[Pash]

Jack Slater is awesome.

[Johnny Mac]

Cheers CL, will give him a call.

[ollie1903]

Ashley Singer.

 

Tell him Ollie sent ye

[Redstar]

Ashley Singer.Tell him Ollie sent ye

Wild stab in the dark here...failed Highland League starlet that could of had it all until the bevvy took hold?

[The Boofon]

[ollie1903]

Wild stab in the dark here...failed Highland League starlet that could of had it all until the bevvy took hold?

Not even close

[Jigot]

Pay Jigot travelling expenses and he will give you this

 

I tiled the New Bankfoot Church/Community hall for Flemings of Lenzie back in '08. It looks like slate but it is in fact an interlocking tile made from 85% crushed slate and 15% resin. The roof is a warm roof with 100mm Kingspan sitting on top of 25mm dressed marine ply, secured with 25mm x 50mm counter batten which in turn are fixed to the strussess with stainless steel Heli-fixings. Monoperm breathable membrane tile batten as normal and tile. I got £3500 for the leadwork off a plumber from Perth so I was getting time and a half for tiling from my cunt of a boss when in fact I was getting £90 per roll of lead I formed the valleys and secret gutters with. The cross is Cedar wood, 2 m high with 4 arms?. One of the Flemings expected me to man handle it up the tile battens and slide it into the specially made stainless steel sleeve, fruit loop. My last job there was to guide the cross into it's point of anchor with the help of a crane and me in a big fuck off cherry picker. I returned to Earth only after etching my name, date and HMFC on the lead cap that is attached to the top of the cross.

 

He is seemingly quite thorough, although tell him to poke his HMFC scratchings

Ha very good Robbie. If I stayed nearer hand I would have had a wee swatch at it. I'm not too familiar with the roofs up that way. Guttering problems, if cast iron can be expensive. The last time I had to buy a ( 6 foot) length cost £38 but it is more than likely the problem is leaking joints which are quite easy to put right. You'll need some rhone bolts and nuts, linseed oil putty and an old half inch would chisel,a hacksaw to cut the bottom of the bolts flush with the underside of the guttering. A punch to gingerly force the remainder of the bolt through. Do this at both ends of the length of cast then carefully break the seal.(putty) remove the length to ground level and chip as much old putty as you can get off using the old wood chisel. Once clean, work a piece of linseed putty until it is pliable and sticks like shit to a blanket and spread it evenly over the flange ends of the guttering. Enline the guttering making sure that the dome headed bolts are pushed from above through the holes then thread the 1/2 inch 12mm square nuts onto the bolts.Gently tighten the bolts using a large plain screwdriver from above and the spanner from below, making sure that an even amount of putty is forced out of the joint as you tighten it,scraping off the excess as you do this. Tighten until you have an even 5mm bedding then smooth off with a wet finger. Do not over tighten as it may cause the cast to crack.

 

It is safer and quicker if you can get a mate to help and work off 2 ladders

[Redstar]

Jigot you are my hero

[The Hulk]

The boy Jigot knows his stuff.

 

Another roofing-related question for you Jigot - a friend of mine is after used Welsh slate to cover a steading roof, approximately enough to cover 200sqm. Told him he'd be better off just getting Spanish but he's adamant on the Welsh. Any ideas?

[ChutneyLove]

Cheers CL, will give him a call.

Think his business is called Culter Slaters (or might be Peterculter Slaters). Tell him someone called ChutneyLove recommended you call and he'll likely hang up.

[Jigot]

The boy Jigot knows his stuff.

 

Another roofing-related question for you Jigot - a friend of mine is after used Welsh slate to cover a steading roof, approximately enough to cover 200sqm. Told him he'd be better off just getting Spanish but he's adamant on the Welsh. Any ideas?

Spanish slate will be a great deal cheaper. Fuck, second hand Welsh slate are dear enough nevermind new ones.

You'll need approx 25-26 400mm x 250mm Spanish (Heavies) sqm at a tweal (guage) of 160mm. I think you can get them down here for roughly 50-60 pence each. Then you have the cost of ventilation, soffit ventilation and continuous dry ventilated ridge are the business, the cost of breathable membrane and 50mm copper nails. Stripping an old roof can sometimes give you unseen expenditure. Wood rot on the sarken, the top boards, bottom boards and sometimes the side boards especially if there has been a cement scew at a step up.Cement on wood doesn't agree.

Tell your mate to leave it till next spring and he could do it himself and he will enjoy it, hard work but he'll love it.

[Henry]

The boy Jigot knows his stuff.

 

Another roofing-related question for you Jigot - a friend of mine is after used Welsh slate to cover a steading roof, approximately enough to cover 200sqm. Told him he'd be better off just getting Spanish but he's adamant on the Welsh. Any ideas?

 

Take a stand and deliver Spanish, despite the protests.

[The Boofon]

Take a stand and deliver Spanish, despite the protests.

 

 

Nice one.

[ChutneyLove]

Take a stand and deliver Spanish, despite the protests.

Sounds like a right Goody Two-Shoes.

[tup]

Christian Slater.

[The Hulk]

Spanish slate will be a great deal cheaper. Fuck, second hand Welsh slate are dear enough nevermind new ones.

You'll need approx 25-26 400mm x 250mm Spanish (Heavies) sqm at a tweal (guage) of 160mm. I think you can get them down here for roughly 50-60 pence each. Then you have the cost of ventilation, soffit ventilation and continuous dry ventilated ridge are the business, the cost of breathable membrane and 50mm copper nails. Stripping an old roof can sometimes give you unseen expenditure. Wood rot on the sarken, the top boards, bottom boards and sometimes the side boards especially if there has been a cement scew at a step up.Cement on wood doesn't agree.

Tell your mate to leave it till next spring and he could do it himself and he will enjoy it, hard work but he'll love it.

I can imagine alot of the sarking will be shot. If you were asked to source Welsh, where would you get them from? For whatever reason, he can't be persuaded on the Spanish.

 

Take a stand and deliver Spanish, despite the protests.

Don't you ever, don't you ever, take my words and twist them into bad puns!

[Jigot]

 

 

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The boy Jigot knows his stuff.

 

Another roofing-related question for you Jigot - a friend of mine is after used Welsh slate to cover a steading roof, approximately enough to cover 200sqm. Told him he'd be better off just getting Spanish but he's adamant on the Welsh. Any ideas?