This great set of photos was sent in by a customer that was renovating a property in Hermon Hill, London to bring it back to its former glory and as part of the works was re-roofing the property. The property is a brick built Victorian era building with nice decorative chimney stacks and ornate soffits\fascias. The customer opted to roof with slate and use terracotta ridge tiles for the ridge runs along the ridge line and for the hips. They was looking at restoring some lost roofing detail to the roof and decided to incorporate an original style ridge dragon and a traditional obelisk roof finial
The photos show the work in progress where the roof has roof battens so the slate can be installed and fixed to the roof and you’ll also see that the ridge beam is exposed before the ridge tiles were installed and bedded in with mortar. The dragon and obelisk were installed on gable ends and the roofers have worked back from the finials as can be seen by the cut being made to the ridge tiles that are at the opposite end of the ridge run
The finished result looks great, the colour of the slate looks natural and traditional as does the ridge tiles and finials which give colour contrast and detail to the roof. Traditional and ornate finials have been used as part of this project, we supply many different types of finials in various sizes and styles to suit just about any kind of project
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