[MassHistPres] MassHistPres Digest, Vol 39, Issue 10

[Dennis De Witt]

Brookline had an LHD case where a contractor offered to put slates on  
a new garage.  Then he tried to put on molded plastic ones -- which  
looked particularly awful the way he did it (diagonal stripes of  
different shades!) They were also rather shiny.  We made him put on  
real ones as he had voluntarily offered in the first place.  In the  
end he claimed that the price difference was not as much as one might  
have thought.

Dennis De Witt


On May 11, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Renaissance Restorations LLC wrote:

> I worked on a residence a few years ago that had all the original  
> slates removed and replaced with synthetic ones.  They had some  
> issues with some of the slates
> curling and buckling under the Summer heat.  Quite a few were  
> replaced during the installation (Disclaimer: My firm didn't install  
> the synthetic slates)
>
> Joe
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>>    1. Synthetic slate (Eric Dray)
>>    2. Re: Synthetic slate (Diane Gilbert)
>>    3. Modern Marvels (Judy Markland)
>>    4. Local Preservation Update E-Newsletter-May 11, 2009
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>> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:33:53 -0400
>> From: "Eric Dray" <ericdray at gis.net>
>> Subject: [MassHistPres] Synthetic slate
>> To: "MHC listserve" <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
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>> Does anyone have information on the relative cost, and performance  
>> over
>> time, of synthetic slate?
>>
>> Eric Dray
>> Provincetown Historical Commission
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>> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:05:42 -0400
>> From: Diane Gilbert <d.m.gilbert at comcast.net>
>> Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Synthetic slate
>> To: Eric Dray <ericdray at gis.net>, Untitled <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
>> Message-ID: <C62DEF46.118EC%d.m.gilbert at comcast.net>
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>> This latest Consumer Report has an article about slate, synthetic  
>> v. the
>> real thing, along with asphalt roofing. Just as FYI...Diane Gilbert,
>> Dartmouth Heritage Preservation Trust.
>>
>>
>> On 5/11/09 2:33 PM, "Eric Dray" <ericdray at gis.net> wrote:
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>>> Does anyone have information on the relative cost, and performance  
>>> over time,
>>> of synthetic slate?
>>>
>>> Eric Dray
>>> Provincetown Historical Commission
>>>
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