Use heavy rubber gloves to scoop up material in areas you can safely reach.
Removing old roof slates.
A vinyl leaf rake can clean harder to reach spots.
Limit cleaning to removing organic debris and delaminated slate flakes from valleys snow guards gutters and the area behind the chimney.
It doesn t matter where you start or stop.
When removing slates from old roofs quite often the slating lath or batten has become dry and brittle over time this makes it very easy to break when using a slate ripper to pull a slate out or chop the nails fixing the slates.
Work from the top bottom and sides to save back muscles.
Remove the old shingles with tear off shovels.
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The process for removing a slate roof resembles removing any kind of roof.