Slate Repair-Installation-Looking For Winter Work

ron kugel

Looking for winter work,will work for Contractor or Homeowners.complete restoration or installation of Slate Roofs.Member of Slate Roofing ContractorsAssoc.,20+ yrs.exper.,Insured,References.
Call or Email: 724-316-7702 slateworks@zoominternet.net

MattCoops

there's a slate roofing association?

where are you located?

I used to do copper roofs and some slate too

sucks in the summer, you can cook eggs on the slate, and your knees and buns kill
in the winter its frost, slips, heart attacks

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Matt with Cupan Custom Tile & Paint of Lowell, Massachusetts
Design and installation of ceramic tile and natural stone for floor, wall, and countertops
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ron kugel

I just like to suffer everyday at work(ha)---I live about 30 miles North of Pittsburgh,Pa. -Joe Jenkins author of the Slate roof bible started the Slate roofers Assoc. ..Just type in Jenkins slate or Slate roof Bible in a search box and his site should come up---I really enjoy what I do,I have been self employed for 26yrs...Just have ended up doing slate,tile & copper work full time and am still learning,I just have 1 or 2 guys that help be on a sub-contract basis...I guess will have to try & fry some eggs next summer...Take care.

MattCoops

have you ever weighed down a boom lift with so much slate it tipped over?

It's even scarier when you unload it and the thing slingshots back up

Or how about walking a copper valley up and the thing blinds you from the sunlight.

The worst is shoveling. That Grace paper gets pretty slick. How close to that edge will you go?

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Matt with Cupan Custom Tile & Paint of Lowell, Massachusetts
Design and installation of ceramic tile and natural stone for floor, wall, and countertops
(978) 601-8774 | cupantile@gmail.com | view tile pictures and more

ron kugel

No not quite,we were salvaging slate from a barn had the boom way out at a low angle ,loaded up the pallet with slate,pallet was touching roof,once it was free of the roof the boom truck started tilting towards the barn,the right side wheels were off the ground,was scared ----less but managed to get the pallet back on the roof,then moved the truck in a little closer.......Need your shades when working with new copper.........When grace first came out we had a shingle job that the carpenters had put on the paper & grace at the bottom,had a little snow to sweep off the roof well one of the guys was sweeping away stepped on the grace and was off the roof in a hurry,fell about 7 or 8',did not get hurt we all had a laugh ect,, 5 minutes later he goes again,banged up his knee a little not to bad,we loaded up and waited for better weather on that job,,,now the surface is not quite as bad as it was then, after that job we would put paper overtop of it so we could walk on it in cause it was like walking on ice...will go right to the edge(as long as I have a harness on) --you did good by moving inside with the Tile & paint ..Do you have alot of work? new or old work?

MattCoops

That's nuts.
Even with a harness I still was shaky.
I remember banging in galvy track for gravelstop
we were on the 11th floor roof with like 50mph winds.
It was roped and we had harnesses on, and OSHA watching with binoculars. But who knows what the hook was nailed off with and was it even hitting rafters? I've pulled strap plates out roofs with my bear hands before. I've seen em nailed to strapping. It's nuts. I always worried about if I actually took a spill would it hold.


I was too much of a wuss to roof.
I hated the cold, the wind, bees, sun, rain, snow.
Hated steep pitches and sore calf muscles.
Hated lugging shingles up ladders.
Cutting your hands on metal jobs.
Riveting downspouts in the rain.
Wacking your thumbs poundin slate.
Getting glue on your boots doing rubber flats. Or spilling glue on rubber and having it bubble.
Torching and shoverling a roof to work on it only for a couple hours.
Being on a 120ft boom on the 7th floor, straight up bouncing around in the wind. Cutting and hammering on beat to the sways.
Having aluminum panels fold in the wind while strapped down to top of truck.
Dropping your damn measuring tape. Then carrying it up the ladder and dropping something else.

Yea, I'll take tile any day. Only thing is your knees and back get achy.
And paint, the only thing is your clothes need more washing.

Work is slowing down a little now. And I don't cut prices in winter.
People cut prices too much. I don't know how they make a living.
I get plenty of new construction subbed out to us.
And we do kitchen and bath remodels on high-end homes.
A couple tile shops that we deal with asked if we could install for them, but I had to say nea cus I can't bring myself so low as to get $3 a square foot. We charge more to paint interiors.

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Matt with Cupan Custom Tile & Paint of Lowell, Massachusetts
Design and installation of ceramic tile and natural stone for floor, wall, and countertops
(978) 601-8774 | cupantile@gmail.com | view tile pictures and more