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: scrtlimited@tiscali.co.uk

Telephone: 0845 678 0065