The "Dark" side is the north side of our roof. With the repointing completed, the next stage involved putting down the slates and doing the flashing. The flashing is described in the next post, but it happened more or less simultaneous with putting down the slates as I realized (the hard way) that one needed the slates in place to accurately do the flashing. So rather than bang out all the slates as I had hoped, they were put down in stages that were mostly geared around doing the flashing.
I ended up starting to slate along the brick wall on the morning of May 3rd, but after a few hours realized that it needed to come down due to a rather annoying corner and stepping out of the brick a few feet up. The problem was that I had not aligned the slates to that stepped-out face, and the way I had originally done it, the slates beyond that point would be so narrow (like, an inch) that they would probably fall apart over time. So I basically wasted that morning, but re-doing it was probably the right move.
I had been hoping that this side of the roof would be easy and fast, but it has turned out to be anything but, taking two days for the slates and several days for the flashing and re-pointing. To top it off, I started to run out of slates...maybe the "Dark" side is an appropriate name after all...
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| May 3rd - the first attempt of laying down the slates in the morning |
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| After taking them off... |
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| The redone slates with the first piece of flashing in |
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| May 5th - Morning |
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| The first course of slates in place |
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| Second course down |
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| A few more rows |
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| Starting to run out of slates |
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| The stopping point at the end of the day |
