Category: standing seam

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On location: Titusville Slate Roof

Hello all! It’s been a while since I posted. The work on the slate roof project has been pretty redundant so I quit taking video/photos until we get into the slate part, but we did close up the hips on one side this weekend which finally reveals the origami drip edge corner / roof transition.

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on-site in Titusville

Work continues on the Titusville slate roofing project. Today we finished the second long eave, and moved the rig around to the back for the short side. Tomorrow we get to connect our first hips which is exciting for me! A little bit of hand hammering to remind me what it was like before the wuko and seam closer tools!

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photo of today: repairs

What’s great about this? Life cycle. Repairability. The remaining roof is left in-tact to make way for a new chimney. There are a few “permanent” materials that lend themselves to re-working and repairability like this: Slate, Tile, and Standing seam. Of those three: standing seam is the only one suitable at lower pitches.

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Reader questions: Seaming a pipe-boot

I’ve been meaning to update the site with better organization. Robert’s question and this discussion about seamed pipe boots was the motivation I needed… There are a lot of videos on Youtube, but they are mostly in foreign languages and even alphabets, making a search for trad roofing techniques very difficult for english-speakers. I’m starting to compile the best videos on a new page here: https://tradroofing.wordpress.com/how-to/

Here’s our discussion from the Trad Roofing forum and the video another member of the group submitted to help with his journey: https://youtu.be/w7lAFq7j3qg

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Photo of today: from Ukraine

Comrade: Aidas Danisevicius‎ shares photos of his boyhood home? The post includes video of a roof tour, and up-close photos of the joinery. They claim the house is from 1600. I have my doubts that the roof is original, but it’s very early: at least and century and a half, maybe two from my experience surveying similar old roofs in america on aged structures.

https://youtu.be/nyN6SIuyeDY