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Scottish Traditional Building Skills Audit Scoping ... - Historic Scotland

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FULL LIST OF WISH-LIST SKILLS: ROOFING<br />

Bellcast<br />

Boring holes<br />

Breathable underlay/ roof-shield<br />

Care and repair of finials (timber, wrought-iron, cast-iron)/ weathervanes etc./<br />

ornamental ridge-cresting etc.<br />

Chimneys- stone/ mortar, terminals/ ventilated-caps, flue-vents<br />

Closed pend ‘peen’ hips<br />

Cold-bossing, types of joins/ spreads<br />

Cresting and ridges<br />

Cutting/ working/ dressing of slate<br />

Detailing: steps, hopper outlets/ soakers etc<br />

Dormers and eye-brow dormers<br />

Drawing<br />

Fascia-boards/ bargeboards/ batton-stops<br />

Flashings<br />

Hand-tools- break-iron, sage, boring-tool<br />

Insulation, ventilation and breathability<br />

Mansard roofs<br />

Measuring<br />

Mitre-hips<br />

Nail selection- copper/ galvanised/ t-nails<br />

Pan tiles<br />

Pointing (lime)<br />

Rainwater-goods<br />

Random widths and diminishing courses<br />

Ridges and haunching/ flaunching – (clay), lead, zinc, mortar etc.<br />

Rosemary clay tiles<br />

Sarking and traditional timber<br />

Single/ centre-nailing<br />

Sizing codes of lead<br />

Skew-blocks<br />

Sourcing material<br />

Specialism- fish-scale/ decorative pattern design<br />

Sprocketted eaves<br />

Stripping roofs, salvage- identify, re-hole, size/ sort<br />

Turrets, towers, spires, conical roofs, polygonal roofs etc.<br />

Understanding slate-geological use<br />

Understanding the materials-slate, lead, cast-iron<br />

Understanding leadwork<br />

Using natural slates<br />

Valleys/ pitched valleys, Valley gutters<br />

Verges<br />

<strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Traditional</strong> <strong>Building</strong> <strong>Skills</strong> <strong>Audit</strong> <strong>Scoping</strong> Exercise<br />

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