is there a cheap source of clips for holding slates onto rafters ? Apparently they're costing about =A330 for a box of 500, but the roof needs about 5000 of them ! This is in France, are screws more commonly used in the UK ?
Si
Si
I would imagine that clipping to rafters would prevent the use of sarking felt and battens - do you mean clipping to the battens?
AWEM
umm.. yeah battens, of course.. sorry for being dumb it's not me who's doing it. It's an X hundred year old cottage Felt would have been a very good idea now you mention it !
Cheers Simon
Si The use of stainless steel hooks are mainly used on man made fibre cement slates to hold the bottom of the slate from curling. In the UK a copper disk rivet is used. If I can remember the bottom of the slate for stainless steel hook fixing doesn't have the hole in the bottom for disk fixing. 1 box of
1,000 copper rivet £14Keith
Normally nails, copper ideally but hot dip galvanised is common.
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