Angell Street meeting house

Slate repair and copper valleys

Aerial view of a slate-roofed meeting house

Survey

0340

Neighbourhood

College Hill

Roof area

6,200 sq ft

Covering

Vermont slate

A slate roof from 1891 that nobody had been able to price without scaffolding. From the air we counted sixty-one slipped slates and four valleys past repair.

Nobody had been able to price this roof without scaffolding, and the scaffolding alone was quoted at more than the congregation had.

What the flight showed

Sixty-one slipped slates on the nave, pinholes along all four valleys at the crossing, and lichen lifting the slates on the west transept. The apse and both spires were sound.

What we did

Slates rehung on copper hooks, four valleys relined in copper, and the lichen cleared by hand from a roof ladder. The towers were inspected and left alone.

Plane by plane

Repaired October 2025

Nave

2,300 sq ft

61 slipped slates

Crossing

Four valleys

Pinholes in the old lead

Apse

420 sq ft

Sound

West transept

540 sq ft

Lichen lifting the slates

Towers

Two spires

One finial loose

Twenty minutes in the air.

A slate roof with a row of dormer windows, seen from the street
A slate roof with a row of dormer windows, seen from the street
A slate roof with a row of dormer windows, seen from the street

A fixed price in two days.

A fixed price in two days.

$180 survey

Taken off the bill if we do the work.

Report in two working days

Photographs, measurements and one fixed price.

Yours to keep

Use it with us, another roofer or your insurer.

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