Best way to install a lead slate?

[Lowecroft]

Hi,

Please can anyone give me advice on how to install a lead slate? It is going into an existing slate roof to allow a flue pipe to exit.

Any help would be appreciated I can't find anything on the forums or the web.

Cheers, Stuart.

 

[noseall]

Fit the last course of tiles below the flue pipe.

Fit the lead slate so that the apron sits on the last course of tiles below the flue pipe.

Fit the tiles up the sides and across the top of the lead slate.

 

[Nige F]

www.traditionalroofing.com/preserve.html it`s a US site , but the principles are the same

 

[Lowecroft]

Thanks guys! Nige thats a great site but I couldn't see anything about lead slates, was it the part about using a slate ripper you were pointing me torwards?

Noseall I understand your method but as I am fitting this into an existing slate roof do I need to strip all the slates from the area the pipe is coming out of before I fit it? I was hoping that I could just take out a couple to allow the pipe to exit and slide the lead slate under the existing slates at the top and sides. Would this work?

If not wouldn't I have to use a load of straps to hold the slates on?

Thanks again guys, I know there must be a simple way to do this but I can't get my head around it.

Stuart.

 

[Lowecroft]

I'm hoping to do this on Sunday. If anybody could help it would be great.

Cheers, Stu.

 

[catlad]

Arm yourself with a slate ripper and rip the slates out were you think your pipe will be and then put the slates back.