Monday 3 June
4pm - 6pm- Register at Reception Desk
6.45pm - Welcome Talk
7pm - Dinner
8pm - Introduction Lecture
Tuesday 4 June
9am - Conservation and understanding tiling: How tiled roofs work; single lap fixed gauge and variable gauge; overs and unders; tegula and imbrex; double lap plain tiles; evolution from vernacular to modern.
Sorting tiles to understand the difference between hand-made and machine-made tiles.
Lecture- Regional roof types; materials - types of clays and different styles of clay tiles and formats. Guides and codes of practice etc; British/European standards.
Clay tile production. Big production machine-made v hand-made manufacturing.
4.30pm - Recording a vernacular tiled roof.
7pm - 7.45pm- Dinner
Wednesday 5 June
9am - Setting out for fixed gauge and variable gauge large format clay tiles. Overs and unders, tegulas and imbrex. Hand-made plain tiles v modern machine-made.
Practical- Mortars
4pm - 5.30pm- Gauging tiled roofs; battening, setting out a roof for swept laced PMV and lead valleys. Start to tile the rigs using machine-made tiles and/or hand-made tiles.
7pm - 7.45pm- Dinner
Thursday 6 June
9am - Tiling the roof using modern and hand-made plain tiles to the four areas to include valleys. Recording the roofs and presenting the findings of the tiled roof recordings.
3.30pm - 4pm- Issue of certificates and depart.
This course has a bespoke timetable. Please see above.