Joseph Jenkins - Newsroom Author Details

Joseph Jenkins has been in the preservation trades since 1968 and directs a corporation in northwestern Pennsylvania that provides national slate roof consulting services, slate and tile roof contracting services, slate roofing publications and slate roofing tools and supplies. He has personally worked on more than a thousand slate roofs, many a century old. Jenkins authored and self-published The Slate Roof Bible, which has been recognized in four national book award competitions and received the National Roofing Contractors Association Gold Circle Award. Jenkins is on the Board of Directors of the National Slate Association (slateassociation.org), and he recently founded the Slate Roofing Contractors Association of North America (slateroofers.org). For information on slate roof installation, slate and tile roof repair, industry contacts, sources of materials, slate roofing tools and a message board on slate, tile and asbestos roofing, visit his Web site www.slateroofcentral.com. For information about his books and publications, visit www.joseph-jenkins.com.

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What Home Inspectors Need to Know About Slate Roofs, July 2005