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Tour a Slate-Roofing Shop

Realizing that their old shop was just too small, these roofers designed a shop with expansion possibilities.

By John Mahan

In this gem from the Fine Homebuilding Video Vault, slate-roofing specialist John Mahan gives us a tour of Mahan Slate Roofing’s new Springfield, Mass.-based shop. Inside, John shows us their copper storage area and describes why their old shop couldn’t accommodate an efficient production line for creating custom copper details.

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