There are many hand tools you can choose from. Some other hand tools commonly required for work on slate roof Toronto and frequently carried in a slater’s tool belt are tin snips (aviation snips) for cutting flashing and sheet metal: utility knife for general purposes: tape measure (25* length); chalk line (for chalking lines when installing new roofs or valleys); utility pencil (carpenter’s pencil or other marker); flat pry bar (also called wonderbar), for removing face nails, prying up slates, removing ridge iron and flashings, scraping tar off roofs, etc.; hand tongs for bending sheet metal: thin chisel for flashing work: and a nail punch, such as a 1/2" bolt about 4" long, for setting the nail when replacing a slate, and for punching nails down through the slate.
An additional set of tools is required for masonry work on chimneys. Pro Roofing
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