On 3/7/2017 6:14 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 7 March 2017 at 22:31, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >>> When my dad and I re-roofed his house we decided to put back the >>> "shingles" that had already been there 500 years. >>> http://www.bodgesoc.org/Slaithwaite2/Front.JPG >> Slate? Good idea, but don't let your insurance or the fire Dept. know. > Sandstone. About 50 tons of it, > I reckon it would take a while to burn through this structure (all oak) > http://www.bodgesoc.org/Slaithwaite2/Hall3.JPG > That's an amazing place.
They didn't offer 500 year shingles at the local home store the last time I checked. My ancestral tree is suppose to go back to England and the era of knights etc. Some of them were land owners. (Apparently knights were sometimes given land?) One place in southwest England still exists. I found it on Google earth. I was thinking of trying to reclaim it but I doubt that the current occupants would give up the deed. :-) Apparently it was remodeled some time in the 1600s... Everyone wants to be modern. Andy, how were those "shingles" attached? Wooden pegs? Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcing the Oxford Dictionaries API! The API offers world-renowned dictionary content that is easy and intuitive to access. Sign up for an account today to start using our lexical data to power your apps and projects. Get started today and enter our developer competition. http://sdm.link/oxford _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
