Category: TradRoofing Students

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No good deeds

In a rare moment of grace and mercy, I let the pleadings of a man influence the Trad list. Ray Haas cried like a baby when I critiqued his work and asked questions any peer would ask, about process with one another. He did make some honest critiques about the site, it was true that i rarely updated my masterpiece with over 260 essays and how-to guides spanning 18 years on trad roofing and preservation… I was busy Ray, sorry for letting you down. In the process of being more online while editing this old tome, i ran across ray’s recent metalwork company advertisements, and well…

I took Ray’s advice and updated the site including the Trad List. Now I’m regretting it.

Size your vessel by performing stereotomy first.

Nope. This will flood >

The Children have let me down.

Brand new tailor… and it shows

There is no need to generate all this man hours… You really have to be creative to invent seam plans. It’s all about designing for the least amount of effort, unless you’re Ray.

Here Ray, this is how you correct the issue of seam close to corner. French/Russian reverse seam..
It’s easy to run the Valley seam next to the chim because we know the whole book of knots, and have experience planning seams tactfully.

Should Ray Hass

remain on The Trad List?

The Trad List

Example of the detail done correct:

Notice the small prism and flood routing. Makes all the difference.
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Roof framing geometry, subdivide space.

This method is used so often in building it is absolutely essential an fundamental.

This can be applied to any surface where you need an equal number of graduations like, roofing tile courses, siding, standing seam panels, dentils carved into a 300′ long stone entablature.. etc. the method can always be used.

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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