Ralph:

Direct your question to Joe Jenkins, the author of "The Slate Roof
Bible" (Everything you wanted to know about slate roofs including how to
keep them alive for centuries. Beautifully illustrated and
written in lay-person's terms. Provides hard-to-find information on
every aspect of slate roofs, from their historical beginnings
to modern slate-roof-restoration techniques. 1997, 287pp., paper.)

 You can contact Joe at [log in to unmask]

Bryan

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Ralph Walter wrote:
>
> Attention, non-vacationing pinheads!
>
> I gotta replace a slate roof, and am hemming and hawing about durability of
> lead coated copper vs. terne-coated stainless steel flashing.  It doesn't
> make much sense to me to save money by installing 25 year flashings under a
> 100 year roof.  On the other hand, having had bad experiences with splitting
> soldered seams in TCSS, would I not be insane to insist that a roofer use
> TCSS if he doesn't want to?  Are we not better off with
> more-readily-solderable LCC, which theoretically should give us a longer
> service life for well-soldered joints than the more durable TCSS with joints
> that want to split next week?
>
> Please advise ASAP.
>
> Your loving humor czar,
>
> Ralph