NickP Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 The roof of our house is "peg" tiles, and along the edge instead of half a tile on the start of every other row; there is a wooden shingle which acts as the half tile, I would be grateful if anybody could tell me the French name for this " shingle" . We must renew the shingle parts of the roof as they are getting a bit long in the tooth, and as we are in an area historique; everything has to be as was. I tried the obvious Google route and it can't oblige. I think there is probably a local builders/roofers expression (Loir et Cher), so I hope someone can help.Cheers [B] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Shingles is more of an american term but are fairly widely used in french camp sites on chalet accomodation; in french they are called "bardeaux". http://goo.gl/WBj9p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG MAC Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Is there a waiting list for them ...like a 'bardeaux queue' kind of thing? I shall get me coat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 [quote user="BIG MAC"]Is there a waiting list for them ...like a 'bardeaux queue' kind of thing? I shall get me coat [/quote]Bardot is a different thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 [quote user="pachapapa"] Shingles is more of an american term but are fairly widely used in french camp sites on chalet accomodation; in french they are called "bardeaux". http://goo.gl/WBj9p[/quote]Thanks for the reference 3P. Shingles is also an English roofing expression, but in my case my roof is not covered in "shingles", it seems that for some reason; probably because they are easier to cut than clay tiles; the locals roofers used a narrow wooden slip tile to start the second and every other even numbered row to stop the joints of the row 1 and row 3 of lining up with the joints of row 2. I just wondered if anybody knew if there was local expression for that kind of "shingle" Come on Chancer your the boy who knows all the local Patois . [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 For you Nick you smooth talker I will get ot my very old French roofing book, written in about 1870, watch this space! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Found it on page 6 thankfully I didnt have to read the whle tome again.Demi bardeaux bois. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 [quote user="pachapapa"][quote user="BIG MAC"] Is there a waiting list for them ...like a 'bardeaux queue' kind of thing? I shall get me coat [/quote]Bardot is a different thing. [/quote][:D]Alas, I don't think she'd exactly have a queue waiting these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 [quote user="Chancer"]Found it on page 6 thankfully I didnt have to read the whle tome again.Demi bardeaux bois.[/quote] Thanks Chancer nice to know the Crawley brotherhood still works. And to you 3P. Silly thing is that makes sense, but; there was I thinking that there would be some long lost word. And because I'm a simple foreigner they wouldn't rip me off as I used the old Patois. Oh well, I'd better go and speak nicely to the bank manager [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I was brought up to be subservient to the posh people from Horsham etc.I would not have helped you had I known you were from Crawley [:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I love to wander off topic [:)] have you seen the A23 at Handcross, felled a lot of trees and they are going to take away those bends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 No, I will have a gander next time, when I used to drive back from the discos under certain weather conditions it looked like a ghostly woman was running across the road their followed by her children, legend had it that they had all been killed in an accident there, I think it was just the headlights of vehicles coming down the hill flickering between the trees, I certainly saw it a few times and an apperntice in our office crashed the mini that I had just sold him there, he blamed the ghosts but he was stoned at the time.It is a very very busy road now, it winds me up the way people brake without reason at the bottom of the hill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 [quote user="Chancer"] I was brought up to be subservient to the posh people from Horsham etc.I would not have helped you had I known you were from Crawley [:P] [/quote] Roffey when I was posh, but now it's Tilgate mate, I don't know were I go from 'ere probably Broadfield?Yes Théière, I saw the trees were gone before Christmas, as for losing the bends? not before time, will stop Chancer and his mates in their boy racers cutting corners like Stirling Moss [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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