Above
is a 30' valley on a church that has been tarred not only
in the valley, but also on the adjacent slates - an incredibly
dumb thing to do. The tar dams the water so it runs under
the slates and into the building when it is applied over
the slates like that. The valley, of course, leaked. The
above photo shows us set up to remove the valley on this
Vermont "sea green" slate roof in western PA.
We replaced the valley with copper (below) , but traces
of the previous Neanderthals remain.
Below
are some photos of typical Neanderthal repairwork. Face-nailed
slates, tarred slates, wrong color (type) of slate, wrong
shape of slates, etc. There is absolutely no excuse for
this sort of ugly and incompetent work.
Chimneys
are popular targets of Neanderthals and you will see all
sorts of abuse done to them. The photos below show typical
situations that we run into day in and day out, along with
a couple of photos of our repairs.
The
above chimney on a residence in western PA, sea green slate
roof, reflashed
with 16 ounce copper.
