I think anyone regardless of gender would appreciate how bent those tiles are. Not caring about this is like a person not caring how Renaissance domes were built. How are those curves able to maintain stability?
Just break up with her if she doesn’t appreciate it, man. There are hot shingles in your area anyway.
This looks like a bad idea to me
i’d rather see flashing in valleys like this… i’d trust a sheet of metal a lot more than this thing
This is beautiful work. Good job OP!
That is beautiful but it seems like a lot more work than the standard way of dealing with an inside corner like that and for no real benefit other than aesthetics.
Pretty sure the benefit is the aesthetics
The added weight… hope the engineer and architect worked together on this one.
It looks like it took EFFORT! :-D
I’m curious if this is more likely to get lifted off by strong wind.
Definitely birds or hornets making a home in the gap at the bottom there
Good for them
It’s in the UK, there will be a layer of roofing felt underneath the slate that prevents pests getting in. Roofing felt is the same stuff that shingles are made from in the US but comes in a roll. So in the UK we have basically the roof you’d have in the US and then another slate roof on top, it rains a lot here, we probably have some of the best roofing in the world.
Nah mate, roofing felt or tar paper is an underlayment for asphalt shingles. While roofing felt uses similar materials as asphalt shingles, we use both underlayment, and shingles (sometimes terra Cotta tiles in the southwest)
Is this just cosmetic or is there a real benefit to the lack of corner?
It’s hard to do with slate tiled roofs. The slates have to overlap to keep water out and the tiles aren’t flexible. So when you get to a corner you basically start the layering process over again.
They sell corner pieces for slate, but they’re pricey. So you typically see them do metal flashing in the corners, or some fancy tiling like in the post.
I’m guessing they just did the corners in this post, the rest of the roof looks older. Probably just replacing some bad flashing with something more permanent.
The only thing I can think of is that it would mitigate the risk of leaf litter corroding the flashing. It does add cost, so profit, so there is that.
You are correct, but slate is already pricey. You comment implies that company was gouging, though maybe not your intent. Sometimes a person wants something and will pay the price to get it.
Yes, avoiding leaf buildup or avoiding water over-run on the flashing is important, but it is mainly because there is only one correct answer when,as humans, we get a chance to answer the question “Do you want to live inside a giant pangolin?”
I know nothing about roofing but can still appreciate how much skill that would take
You ever notice these memes are always framed as a man complaining about his partner who is a woman? In a normal world there would be a roughly equal amount of memes framed as a woman complaining about her partner who is a man. What can we conclude from this disparity?
Is it that men are just more likely to whine and complain than women? No, surely this must be a case of women being uptight and not appreciating anything outside their narrow range of hobbies and interests.
I mean, surely this woman’s failure to appreciate a complex carpentry/roofing job isn’t at all related to the fact that the carpentry/roofing industry is extremely biased towards hiring men and thus women in general have wayyyy less incentive to learn this much about carpentry/roofing unless they are just specifically interested in those things for some weird reason.
I know its a dumb meme, and I am not singling out OP or even this meme, I just want to see more women-complaining-about-uptight-men memes.
“You ever notice these memes are always framed as a man complaining about his partner who is a woman?”
If by that you mean just the memes that are framed as a man complaining about their partner who is a woman. Which seems so specific that it’s a tautological overly fitted category description.
If you want to get all the way in, there is nothing suggesting the person who originally posted this is a a man. Just that they are dating a woman and have guy friends.
My mum has no interest in anything like that. She always says it’s for my dad to do it. My sister has no interest in any of that.
My girlfriends have always got me to do stuff/ have no interest in any of that stuff. I’ve never worked in carpentry or roofing.
Most of my guy mates would apprised this post. Maybe somethings are just largely innate and that’s okay?
Who hurt you?
Mike
Dirty Mike or Little Mike?
Medium Clean Mike
Fuck that guy!
In the two memes you just posted my wife appreciated both.
I’m a woman and this looks neat. Good job man 👍
I’m literally hard
Fucking sick 🤘
That’s a nice roof.
