Thanks Paul!
One big job that has just been left and left has been the roof over the lounge. Any rumours that I got stuck up there a while back after accidentally kicking the ladder away are unsubstantiated by any photographic evidence, and as we know, without photos, it didn't happen. Anyway, quite a lot of work happened to get to the point in the next photo: the feather-edge boards around the widow, following on from fixing two steel hooks to make future scaffold access possible; gutters to the upper rooves; the old membrane and battens were stripped, new membrane fitted, and it was all rebattened; and finally, a fascia was fitted:
The slating was easy, except for the area under the new boards, because trying to reach around the hidden corner, with almost nowhere to stand, and working left handed, was really hard. So, there are no work-in-progress photos until near the end, which is just to illustrate that the final stages of tiling a roof are awkward because you run out of space for materials and for yourself:
Finished:
These are a medium grade Spanish slate (250mm x 500mm), nailed on with aluminium slate nails. The grading thing is interesting (well, you know..
).....Slate grade isn't about the quality of the material, at all. It is about the uniformity of the product. The top grade slates are all the same thickness, whereas the lower grade stuff will have a mixture of thick and thin.
Finally, the gutter. This gutter is going to have the water from the upper rooves fed into it, as well as from the small slate roof, so I opted for a deep profile rather than the more usual 4" half-round. This has a higher carrying capacity: