Heritage Roof Training Programme
Mike Fildes
Director of Fildes Roofing Ltd and South Coast Roof Training Ltd
The Sunken Galley at Watts Gallery, Compton nr
GuildfordProject completed: 2011
Oak Cleft Shingling at Watts Gallery, Compton
nr GuildfordProject completed: 2011
Caddlington House near Horndean, HampshireUsing natural slates and leadworks
Project completed: 2010
Kingsham Farm near MidhurstUsing Cotswold random stone & associated leadworks
Project completed: 2009
South Coast Roof Training Centreat Littlehampton
Rigs at South Coast Roof Training Centre in Littlehampton
Richard Jordan and the five candidates taking the Heritage Skills NVQ Level 3
SAP in Roofing
A field trip to a slate quarry
The Heritage Roofing candidates warming up on a chilly day at the Weald & Downland Museum in West
Sussex
Random Slates laid to roof rigs at SCRT by the Heritage Roofing candidates
Sorting slates at the SCRT centre in Littlehampton
Wooden pegs fixing the random slate to battens
Head bedding slates: lime mortar fixes the
slates to each other to stop them moving
The arrival and sorting of Cotswold stone
slates
Completing a stone roof – water is poured
down the slope to make sure it is water-
tight.
It was!
Using heritage skills to work with the tiles: whittling pegs and
cutting tiles by hand
A laced valley
Swept valleys
An eyebrow
Curved tiling
Torching the underside of a roof
Full torching – the lime mortar is the darker stripes, the lighter
stripes are the laths
Horse, goat and yak hair is used in lime
mortar to help bind it.
St Andrews Church in Tangmere, West Sussex.
Re-tiling and shingling the spire after lightning damage
to the roof.
Weald and Downland Museum, West Sussex
Mike Fildes
Director of Fildes Roofing Ltd and South Coast Roof Training Ltd
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0845 678 0065
