Roof Slate Sizes

Bangor quarrymen say the reason they do not use the more modern trimming machine is that its motion breaks the slates.

Roof slate sizes.

Special sizes such as slate and a half can be ordered to reach into valleys gable ends hips and dormers. Standard roofing sizes installation specifications. Dark grey natural slate with thin laminations and a riven surface. Slate roof tiles are rectangle in shape but can be trimmed into special shapes such as clipped corners diamond fish scale and hexagon.

Buckingham slate is a superior roofing slate due to its resistance to acids low absorption rate genuine unfading qualities and extra long product lifespan. Standard roofing slate thicknesses and sizes 1. Nominal 1 2 inch 13 mm to 3 4 inch 19 mm. Two splitters and one dresser commonly work in a shanty though some slates split so easily that one splitter is sufficient.

600 300 24 12 13 slate per m2 500 250 20 10 21 slate per m2 450 250 18 10 23 slate per m2 400 250 16 10 27 slate per m2. Nominal 1 4 inch 7 mm to 3 8 inch 10 mm 3. Split to an average thickness of 5mm 7 5mm and 9 mm. Our slate is quarried and manufactured in the usa always has been and always will be.

Roofing slates range in size from 24xl4 in. Nominal 3 16 inch 5 mm to 1 4 inch 7 mm 2.