one-day course

making & hanging shingles

venue: Ecclesall Woods Sawmill, Sheffield

This course is run by Jasper Prachek of the Working Woodlands Trust. It is a practical course; participants will be making shingles from logs, and hanging them on a demonstration wall.

Wooden shingles provide a hard-wearing roof (or wall) made from natural, local materials. Shingles represent probably the lowest embodied-energy roofing system - you just need to fell a tree and split shingles from it!

Participants will:

  • discuss tools to be used (wedges, froes, mallets etc) and the types of wood that can be used
  • watch a demonstration on how to use the tools and make shingles
  • cleft their own shingles (to take home if they wish)
  • discuss fixings (nails, pegs, wire) and hang shingles on a structure on-site
  • make their own wooden mallet (again, to take home)
  • have the opportunity to discuss their own projects

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how to book:
  

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arrive:
  
around 9.30 for a 10am prompt start
depart:
  
after the course finishes at 5pm
directions:
  
click here for directions to Ecclesall Woods
what to bring:
  
work clothes; pen and notebook; packed lunch; if you have froes, mallets or relevant tools, feel free to bring them
let us know:
  
if you have any special needs
price:
  
£60
Refundable up to two weeks prior to course (minus £30 admin fee)
No refunds for cancellations within two weeks of course
lunch:
  
bring a packed lunch
discounts:
 
car sharing:
  
visit our car sharing forum to offer or request a lift
 


 

 


the walls and roof of this exhibition space / office building at Ecclesall Woods are covered with cedar shingles


 

a course participant using a froe and a wooden knocker to split a log to make shingles

 

 


installing wooden shingles - natural, beautiful, and a way of helping prevent climate change by locking up carbon on your roof!