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National Slate Association (NSA)
4 Reasons Slate is So Special
By Trent Cotney for the National Slate Association. The benefits of natural slate are plentiful! Here is why you should consider this material for your next project. When it comes to the many roofing materials available, people tend to think about the materials most frequently used, like asphalt shingles or ...
How You Can Create a Slate Roofing Career Path
By National Slate Association. At a recent meeting with the NRCA, the National Slate Association helped them outline a slate roofing ProCertification® program. This last June, slate roofing specialists met with representatives from the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) to discuss the exact set of skills a professional slate roofer ...
National Slate Association: New Lives in the Valley (1850-1920)
Gwilym Roberts led a very successful academic life as Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of Farmington, Maine. Both his father and two Welsh immigrant grandfathers were slate workers from Brownville, Maine, and this heritage became the subject of his book, New Lives in the Valley. The Valley ...
National Slate Association: Slate Roofs
The 1926 timeless classic has been carefully reprinting with a completely new foreword! Slate Roofs is a piece of history yet contains practical solutions still very relevant for today’s roofer. You’ll find explanations and illustrations showing time proven slate roofing techniques, specifications, historical perspective and more. It has been carefully ...
Finding the Right Tile for Revamping Your Roof
By Evelyn Witterholt. If you can’t decide between warm terracotta, modern slate and everything else in between, this homeowner’s guide will help! Choosing the right material for your roof is no easy task. Even if you’ve narrowed it down to the material you desire, there’s still so much variety to ...
A Beautiful Fall Weekend at the National Slate Association Conference
By Tom Stortz. The National Slate Association celebrates its 20th year, hosting their conference in the east coast wilderness and making it an amazing fall experience. National Slate Association (NSA) Conference ’22 This year, during the first weekend of October, the NSA held its conference in Saratoga Springs, New York and the ...
RoofersCoffeeShop® Welcomes the National Slate Association (NSA)
The NSA is dedicated to promoting excellence through the development and dissemination of technical information, standards and educational resources for the slate industry. RoofersCoffeeShop®, the award-winning place where the industry meets for technology, information and everyday business, is pleased to welcome National Slate Association (NSA) into its community for contractors. ...
Sneak Peek into the National Slate Association Conference
By Heidi J. Ellsworth. Quarry field trips, meaningful discussions, Vermont leaves and splitting tiles were just some of the highlights of this annual conference. RoofersCoffeeShop® had the great pleasure and honor to be a part of the 2022 National Slate Association (NSA) annual conference. What an amazing experience! The roofing contractors and ...
RoofersCoffeeShop® is Going to The National Slate Association Conference!
By Cass Jacoby. RCS will be at the event of the year for the slate business; come say hi! The National Slate Association Conference is quickly approaching and you can bet that RoofersCoffeeShop® (RCS) will be there to support one of our newest members. The conference will be in Saratoga ...
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