By ...thank goodness. We're on the home stretch. Only 1/3rd of the last surface to go but its the largest of them all. I had to sort, clean and grade 1200 for this bit. Most of the slates that came of the roof are okay to be reused. The problems with the roof are the nails, corroded away to nothing, and some of timber (woodworm) needed replaced. So the slates have been put on with some nice galvanised nails and treated timber for the bad bits. All in all the important structural timbers are as good as new which is not bad for a house over 150years old.
I'm looking forward to putting on the last slate as its taken us almost 4 months (part-time) to do.
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