Slate tiles slipping forward

It's not wrong to call them slates.
Stone slate is fine too.
Just because it's Yorkshire doesn't mean it's york stone. The picture isn't definitive .
However if it is a York stone roof there is nothing wrong in calling them York stone slates.

Just as a Purbeck stone roof can have a Purbeck stone slate split from a suitable bed.

Burlington stone is referred to as slate likewise Westmorland green stone ..

So to pull someone up for using a general term is petty.

So to pull someone up for using a general term is petty.

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It wasn't so much pulling someone up, as suggesting when speaking on the phone to potential contractors that it was a "york stone roof" as opposed to a "slate roof". The pedantic classification is really irrelevant - its just so the person at the other end has a good idea what is being talked about

Re-reading it my post did look a little brusque - wasn't intended...

We've seen enough dodgy roofing threads on this forum and the OP really does need someone who knows what they are doing...

datarebal said:

It's not wrong to call them slates.
Stone slate is fine too.
Just because it's Yorkshire doesn't mean it's york stone. The picture isn't definitive .
However if it is a York stone roof there is nothing wrong in calling them York stone slates.

Just as a Purbeck stone roof can have a Purbeck stone slate split from a suitable bed.

Burlington stone is referred to as slate likewise Westmorland green stone ..

So to pull someone up for using a general term is petty.

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Thanks yep I have been saying stone slate the whole time as I know they aren't tiles or just slates so I called them stone slate, so thanks to clarifying this is fine too, appreciate it

mrrusty said:

It wasn't so much pulling someone up, as suggesting when speaking on the phone to potential contractors that it was a "york stone roof" as opposed to a "slate roof". The pedantic classification is really irrelevant - its just so the person at the other end has a good idea what is being talked about

Re-reading it my post did look a little brusque - wasn't intended...

We've seen enough dodgy roofing threads on this forum and the OP really does need someone who knows what they are doing...

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I had been using the term stone slate all the time to them as I know they aren't regular slates. I just wasn't sure they were yorkshire stone so I just said stone slates to any workmen

I am trying to find a decent roofer, shame a few have been dodgy and the others are either so busy they won't come out or don't bother answering the phone.
I am not the type of person to get someone dodgy out and am trying to get someone decent.
It is hard getting anyone it seems with some being dodgy and wanting to cut ends of the stone slates ugh.



Thanks anyway, I am just trying to figure out what is dodgy and what isn't so that I can get a good roofer so that is why my questions have been things they have suggested. It is all things roofers have said, not things I am suggesting to them