Getting Rid Of Slate?

Jeremiah Ames

I'm going to be doing some work in the near future on a carriage house that's fallen on hard times. We need to jack the whole structure up and poor a stem wall under the back wall. Before we can do this, the roof needs to come off. It's about 12 square of slate in pretty good shape. It's got to come off before we can work on the structure and the homeowner doesn't want it put back on. Do I have any options for getting rid of it? My mason thinks I might be able to find someone to come and remove the slate and take it away just for the value of the slate. He thinks I might even be able to negotiate to have them resheath it while there up there. Anyone have any thoughts on this? The structure is located is Western Massachusetts on about a 6/12 pitch. Thanks for reading.

SLSTech

Its called a roofing contractor & they charge for that

Edit: sorry maybe I am being a little to flippant about it, but the labor to carefully remove, stack, transport & store the slate would probably outweigh the amount they could possibly even get for reselling it.

May I ask how a structure is located on a 6/12 pitch? Are you a HO looking for something to hold over a roofing contractor? So you want the structure resheated, but no felt put on it?

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Jeremiah Ames

Hi Sean. My post seems to have touched a nerve with you.

I am a home owner. I own quite a few of them, actually. I'm also a GC. I'd rather not pay Comp on my guys while they climb around the roof pulling off a product which might be of value to another builder (or perhaps a roofing contractor - the sort of guy I figured might read this forum.)

6/12. I'm referring to the pitch here - I'm guessing you know that. If someone's trying to determine if it's worth their time to pull slate off the structure, I thought it might be helpful to know the pitch they'll be working on.

So you want the structure resheated, but no felt put on it?

Well, no. We Yankee boys call it "sheathing" and I was merely suggesting that I might be able to negotiate part of the new roof as trade for the slate. I'm guessing you were trying to explain that it wouldn't be worth it to you. Thanks for your input.

I'd appreciate any further input from other readers. Thanks for your help.

Lefty H

Hi,

Start making some calls. I get them calls. I look. Most of the time there is not enough good slate to make a difference in the price.

I always see someone else salvaging the slate. So you will find someone too.

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Jeremiah Ames

Thanks for the input, Lefty. That's encouraging. Maybe I'll try to take a bunch of hi-res photos to send out before anyone makes the trip. I'd hate to waste anyone's time. Thanks again for your opnion.

Patrick

Call up associated building wreckers in Springfield, they will send out a dumpser and take it away for cheap money. they use it for road fill

Or Call Mahan roofing in Springfield they might want to salvage it

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Jeremiah Ames

Great! I'll add Mahan to my list of calls to make tomorrow. Thank you.

slate n steeple

While I just joined this website I wished I'd been here to respond to the gentlemen with the good slate on the old building. For the benefit of anyone in the same situation please take the time to locate a slate roof specialist if one is available in your area because depending on the age, type and thickness of the slate you may find that they will at least do the tear off and clean up for free or in some cases pay you for them. When performing a slate restoration a quality slate roofer will prefer using an aged slate versus a new on since it will blend into the existing roof and not make it look like a "patch" job.