Fixing to slate tile roofs

[Worcester]

@BruceB,

Thanks for reply, and for taking it in the light that they are meant - to help others through this quagmire! My comments are there to try and establish a best practice for these types of install, I am still astonished that no mounting supplier has a definitive answer.

 

[jockmac]

Hello fellow installers

 

[Eco Deal]

Sorry No close ups

 

[Easters]

After 8 years Installing solar on roofs and hundreds of slate jobs I think this is the best method on slate.
The roofing installing the new Spanish slate said he was very impressed and was happy with the roof and it would not leak.

 

[SolarCity]

Easters, this appears to be the same kind of method that we use. We tend to keep the brackets a little higher above the slate to ensure that movement in the array doesn't stress the slate in years to come but this may be overcautious.

 

[Bright_Light]

So have you drilled and fixed through the slate and then flashed over the top? Or is the slate notched and fixings are direct to the rafter?

 

[beefheart]

this is how we like to do itcode 4 lead dressed nice and neat, no cantilever effect on the slates,

 

[Worcester]

this is how we like to do itView attachment 7845code 4 lead dressed nice and neat, no cantilever effect on the slates,

Excellent example, and clearly no stress on the underlying slates - out of interest which brackets are those?

 

[BruceB]

And is there anything like a tingle holding the slate in place, or is it not necessary?

 

[solarsavings]

this is how we like to do itView attachment 7845code 4 lead dressed nice and neat, no cantilever effect on the slates,

Do you have any photo's of the hook fixings.

 

[beefheart]

no tingle the slate is nailed back in, no slippage