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Author Message   mjh Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 11:08 am:        It's interesting to see the use of roof jacks on roofs in the U.S. Here in England I've never had cause to use them because of our practice of using laths over spars rather than boarding over spars and then fixing the slates straight to the boards. Best Regards, Mike.   Anonymous Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 11:18 am:        Mike, I will have to disagree with you there, There are plenty of old houses in England that have wood boards with the slates fasten directly to the wood boards. And they do use roof jacks but the old slaters in my time used to call them cripples. They were made out of wood and fasten to the boards leaving a slate out. In fact the old stone masons still use this method today while installing the old cotwold stone tiles on roofs.   mjh Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 04:20 pm:        In the forty years that i've had in the roofing trade i've rarely had to slate straight to board, although a mate of mine who lives in Scotland does it most of the time. I have stripped roofs where the slate is nailed direct to boards, but these days Architects tend to specify counter laths and laths. I do remember roof cripples though, but I have'nt used them for 3 decades Best Regards, Mike   Anonymous Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 02:20 pm:        Mike, It appears from your first message, you are referring to new construction !   robin Posted on Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 11:21 am:        in belgium we mostly use boards on all smaller nature slates sizes 20x30cm and 18x27 cm.. for bigger sizes it's a rarity... dunno what that is in inches.. somebody can translate this for our US friends?   mjh Posted on Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 01:53 pm:        30x20cm = 12"x8" and 27x18cm = 11"x7". This is not an exact conversion but the nearest equivelant sizes in imperial measure. The old slate names for these sizes would be Wide Doubles and Odds.   robin Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 - 02:29 pm:        thanks very very much!!!! always a problem for me on this site dealing with the measures...   Anonymous Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 - 03:40 pm:        Hey Robin, any sites like this one in countries other than the US? Just thought it might be neat to ckeck out.   robin Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 12:56 pm:        I'm working on my site, would loveto post pics, but it doesn't seem to work....   robin Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 12:57 pm:        dunno any sites like this with a forum, would love to start one though...