Who is Trip Trapping Across My Roof?!?

Once, there was a slate roofer tapping and a tapping new slate into a roof. "Who is that trip trapping on my roof!" was heard from the ground!




Recently, we were repairing a slate roof for a customer who was selling her house. The poorly done repairs that were done previously had to be corrected before the house could be sold. A neighbor accosted one of our slate mechanics and said, "what are you doing on my roof?" Well, our slate mechanic replied that he was fixing the poorly done repairs so that Ms G-, could sell her home. But I've been repairing that roof for years retorted the neighbor. Unfortunately, the neighbor had been using roof cement to repair the precious slate roof. Ugh, came the reply from our workman. You can't use roof cement on a slate roof. But I use the fiberglass fabric! replied the neighbor.

Let's just reiterate, don't be the roof troll. Roof cement is not used to repair slate roofs. The only place roof cement should be used is at the hips and ridges and only to keep the water out from where the two slates overlap.

Roof cement used to repair slate roof.