| Author | Message | ||
     Joe Jenkins Senior Member Username: Joe Post Number: 196 Registered: 07-2006 |
We mix on the ground based on the color scheme. Widths and lengths don't matter as much. For example, if you're using 1/3 sea green, 1/3 purple and 1/3 black, then you would take 4 of each (12 slates, or however many your ground crew can carry at one time) and set them aside, on edge, in a horizontal stack. However, when you take the 4 sea green, you would take 4 different sizes (lengths and widths) if you want a random mix of sizes, then do the same with the purple and the black. You may need to take more of one length or width than another in any one color due to the amounts you have, so you have to figure out ahead of time what the mix will be and write it down for the ground crew. Once they have the mix ratio, they simply keep gathering the slates up according to the mix ratio and stacking them aside. This way the slates are all premixed and are then sent up onto the roof that way. The slaters then just have to slap them down, keeping an eye on the color and size to make sure they're not putting the same slates beside each other. If you just send the slates up onto the roof unmixed, it takes forever to figure out how to blend the mix ratio and you don't have much room to work. It's much better to have the blending done on the ground where there's lots of room and then you're not tying up a good slater to do a job that a laborer can easily do. | ||
| Stephen J Taran Intermediate Member Username: Steve_t Post Number: 35 Registered: 07-2006 |
what we do is build a large pallet with a shelf for the lull and runthe slate standing up in rows of different colors and sizes. mixing them on the ground would work if they where all the same width but it seems like you never have the right size width. we where curious how other slaters did it one fellow i spoke with his counts on 100% or 100 pieces and does it based on the % of widths and colors so he has and equal amount every time | ||
| Joe Jenkins Senior Member Username: Joe Post Number: 195 Registered: 07-2006 |
There is an article on installing mixed colors and sizes of slates at http://www.traditionalroofing.com/TR5_cottage_roofs.html. We always have a ground crew shuffle the blend together on the ground and stack them, already mixed, waiting to be carried up. This saves the slaters the headache of trying to blend them on the roof and allows the job to proceed quickly. The slaters still have to watch every single slate for color and size, but with the slates coming up on the roof already blended, the finished product will be a random blend without much head scratching. | ||
| Slate Affair Inc. Senior Member Username: Slate_man Post Number: 142 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ha Steve, We always mix as we bring it to the roof, using some kind of % per color. | ||
| Stephen J Taran Intermediate Member Username: Steve_t Post Number: 34 Registered: 07-2006 |
When you roofers install a three color blend say 18 randoms green, gray, purple. How do you install it. do you figure out all the sizes and colors and mix batches of 100 slates based on equal percentages or do you just laod the slate on the roof and install it as you go. we have been having some big debates on this?? |
