Cembrit Jutland Roof Slate Blue/Black 600x300mm (10 / Band)

Cembrit Jutland low cost smooth, square edged, fibre cement roof slate

Cembrit Jutland is the most cost effective double lap slate for creating a natural looking roof. With a low leading edge your roof slope will have the neat, low profile appearance of a genuine slate roof without the shadow lines thicker concrete tiles create. Jutland slates are lightweight, pre-holed, easy to cut with hand tools so no mechanical cutting tools are needed with the attendant problems of dust suppression you get with heavier interlocking roof tiles.

Easy to handle and install, Cembrit Jutland slates lend themselves to complex roof structure where there is much cutting and drilling.  Jutland slates are pigmented during production and are fully compressed. They are finished with a high quality, semi-matt acrylic coloured coating to the top face and edges and a tinted, high performance binder to the back face.

Fixing

The method of fixing is to centre nail each slate with two 2.65mm x 30mm long copper nails and secure the tail of the slate with a copper disc rivet of suitable quality (0.45 x Ø 20mm base with a 20 x Ø 2mm pin) correctly bent down-slope through 90°. 

Slate and a half and double slate sizes should be drilled to accept three nails and two disc rivets as well as fixing holes for the slates in the course above. At all verges and abutments, alternate slate courses must start with slate and half width to maintain bond. Slate and a half widths must be used if the half slate is less than 150mm wide. At valleys and hips where slates need to be cut on the rake, wide slates must be used to maintain an adequate width at the head or tail. At mitred hips on low pitched roofs wide slates should be used beneath the hip capping.