Random Slate Roof

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Random slate roof.

This is a roof of random slates. The use of random width slate will generally reduce the material cost of the roof. Evenly diminishing margins. The lower slate in the pair is dropped down a couple inches and the slate on top is raised up a little.

This finish gives your roof a cost effective way of either reproducing traditional random slating during a restoration project or creating a stunning aesthetic or visual effect on a brand new building. The textural effect is created by periodically inserting two slates on top of each other where one slate would normally be. Above is a random width slate roof pa black slates. Random width slate roofs random width slate roofs share the attributes of a standard slate installation but employ slates of one length and thickness in a variety of widths.

A traditional and increasingly popular slate specification is random roofing. In appearance the alternating vertical joints between shingles on a random width roof will not always line up with the vertical joints from the courses below. The characteristics of random slating are. In european standard en12326 1 terminology they are slates with undefined dimensions.

The consignment of slates is sorted into length sets by the slater and laid from the largest at the eaves to the smallest at the ridge. Slate lengths which reduce up the roof slope.