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   theslateman | Apr 16, 2008 05:07pm | #1

   I'd be awfully tempted to reframe the overhangs to enable a flat board fascia to be applied. I'd bring the rafter tails down along the roof line -- eliminate whatever kind of gutter you now have.

   The slate is completely past it's useful life -- so reroof and add 5" alum ogee gutters around the perimeter  -- attached to the flat board fascias.

   You're making too much work for yourself.

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   MikeHennessy | Apr 16, 2008 06:12pm | #2

   These aprons are usually covered with copper, or painted & maintained (or not, as seems to have been in your case) terne - a tinned sheet steel. Your pics don't show what your gutter layout was, but I assume they are outboard. I have had success in replacing the metal with EPDM which you can run up under the shingles to a point 2' inside of the wall plumb line. That way, it does the job of both the I&W shield and the tin.

   Mike Hennessy
   Pittsburgh, PA

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   pixelfixel | Apr 16, 2008 06:45pm | #3

   Thanks much for your reply. What I'm trying to do is just patch so that a EPDM rubber roof can go on top of it. I wanted to fix it so the slope was in place for the water to run into the gutters properly. I'm sorry I'm a novice-If I patch with galvanized metal does that make sense before adding the rubber? If so, is galvanized best to attach to the tinned sheet metal?Thanks,
   Jim

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   MikeHennessy | Apr 16, 2008 09:17pm | #4

   If you're re-roofing anyway, I'd tear out any existing metal, fix the roof decking with wood, and go from there. You want a pretty smooth surface under the EPDM so you don't get poke-throughs.

   Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA

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   pixelfixel | Apr 16, 2008 09:43pm | #5

   That's an excellent idea- Thanks again.Jim

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   frammer52 | Apr 16, 2008 11:34pm | #6

   the slateman is correct.  Your slate roof is shot.  Any fix you make will be temporay, so do it cheap.