| Author | Message | ||
     Braymer (Braymer) Senior Member Username: Braymer Post Number: 115 Registered: 09-2008 |
Looks like someone is walking on it. Seems like you could question your liability at this point, especially with proof that it was walked on by other people.. Photos of the bent snowtops and obvious stepped on tiles should help support your position. | ||
| Tim_dittmar (Tim_dittmar) Advanced Member Username: Tim_dittmar Post Number: 48 Registered: 05-2008 |
Did someone overdrive nails on this area of the roof? There are formulas for nail length and I've wondered, "Are these formulas for a minimum or a maximum length? or both or .... When a slate nail penetrates the nailer completely, does nailing resistance change and then one hits the nail just as hard? as the last stroke(one more time to flush the head) and it's now been overdriven potentialing/causing slate damage? Would an ideal slatenail length be one where the nail point might be visible from the underside of the decking but few if any of them would completely penetrate. Would ringshank slate nails be less likely to exhibit reisitance change if overdriven? Petrified or excessively bouncing or knot-riddled lath could certainly contribute to problems of this sort, I'd think... | ||
| Kwhord (Kwhord) Senior Member Username: Kwhord Post Number: 235 Registered: 10-2006 |
Maybe there was an inexperienced installer working on that one face. They did not cull the slates as they were installed? One possible scenario. | ||
| Old_school (Old_school) Senior Member Username: Old_school Post Number: 150 Registered: 01-2009 |
Who is walking on the roof? They don't break by themselves! | ||
| Lmblase331 (Lmblase331) New member Username: Lmblase331 Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2009 |
We installed several new slate roofs in a 2 year period, we are having a problem with only one side of one of the roofs. We have been called back at least once every 1-2 years for breakage on this particular roof, no call backs on the others. All had been inspected the 1st and 2nd year following installation and remained perfect, no slipping or breakage, with the exception of this one roof. The only variable with this one home is the fact that it sits vacant the majority of the time. Most of the roofs required new lath, as did the roof in question, the lath had basically petrified, you couldn't nail into it. It was installed in 2003, on lath, hand nailed, 12 x 24 PA slates. A couple of the repairs were clearly storm/tree damage, one call back was obvious that someone (the chimney guy) had walked across the snow stops, bending them severly and broke all the slates above them. Any suggestions on why this one roof, and only one side of the roof, would have so many slates fail? So far, we have completed all repairs as warranty issues, even though clearly at least 2 were not. Any suggestions would be great. |
