InterNACHI Field Guide for the Inspection of Slate Roofs

InterNACHI Field Guide for the Inspection of Slate Roofs

This is a PDF download, not a book. You will receive a link via email to download the PDF after purchasing.

Written by Kenton Shepard, author of InterNACHI’s Certified Roof Inspector course.

This 44 page field guide , containing over 75 photographs, is meant to be used as a tool to help identify problems with slate roofs. It includes information and photographs on:

• types of slate and their characteristics
• the production of slate roof tiles,
• installation requirements and problems
• the typical aging process
• moisture damage
• hail damage
• footfall damage
• Slate roof inspection

It includes references that will help in identifying the slate quarry of origin and its grade.

TABLE of CONTENTS
Introduction, 1
Slate Formation and Production, 2
• Slate Characteristics, 9
• Slate grades, 10
• Slate installation, 11
Inspecting slate Roofs, 13
Types of Slate, 14
Slate Roof Styles, 20
Installation, 24
• Field slates, 24
• Fasteners, 25
• Flashing, 27
• Valleys, 29
• Hips, 30
• Ridge, 32
Snowguards, 35
Repairs, 37
Damage, 40
• Hail, 40
• Moisture, 42
• Ice, 42

***PDF is 95 MB in size, so allow some time for the download to occur. We STRONGLY recommend that you do this on a high speed internet connection.