Online school of exclusively slate roofing

After graduation, he began working as a hired roofer and immediately became a foreman. He and his team changed asbestos sheets at a speed of 1000 square meters in 1 week. During this period, he realized that he needed to work quickly or switch to more expensive roofs. After that, he began looking for clients and focused on bituminous shingles or metal tiles, these were the most common roofs in the region. The requirements for quality increased and had to be studied and improved. Projects with natural tiles began to appear and there was a constant growth in the profession.

He became a hostage to this process and was constantly looking for something even more interesting to study, so he got into the team of Michal Sadko - Sadko Dachy (PL), and for the first time took up slate tiles in 2015. 

Michal Sadko opened a new world - the world of epic European roofs. Andrew Makhinia literally in a year got acquainted with rectangular slating, wild slating, standing seam roofs and wooden constructions. At that moment, his eyes lit up and he began to constantly study and improve in these techniques.

He really wanted to study German slating, and so he ended up in Germany in the team of a well-known slate roofer. With him he worked both on private roof projects and on major restorations of churches, monasteries and even on an old German prison. 10 projects under the guidance of a great professional gave good results very quickly and Andrew learned this style well. But, since this slating is very diverse, and its appearance is very dependent on handwriting, he did not stop and tried to hone the handwriting. In this he was helped by two very creative and artistic professionals Marco Weiss and Martin Engelke. They revealed the philosophy of this craftsmanship, taken from tradition, history, old masters and books. They answered the philosophical question of how a slate roof should look like.

After that, Andrew became a slate roof and facade contractor in his country and carries out private projects in the most interesting techniques for the richest clients in the region.

He completed many author's architectural projects of roofs and facades, his implementations won prizes in European competitions.

Photos of his work evoke surprised emojis from professional roofers in various professional communities in different countries: Great Britain, Germany, France, etc.

Now he has collected all the experience structured and packed in a convenient case to benefit many colleagues who, like him then, need knowledge and strive to learn the most interesting roof techniques.