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Hi Surrey, i asked today in the roofing shop i buy from and the said that Marley make them,hope this helps Dave

Hi, great photos, well with out having a look at the roof my self i have seen a few broken and split slates that could possibly cause some leaking but it seems a pretty bad leak to me. Personally i would say its your back gutter on the chimney and the flashings at the top left hand side behind...

Sorry surrey i do'nt, i will try to find out who makes them and let you know ok.

You do have to remove the morter first and you will find the battens are normally cut flush with the wall, you can buy plastic exstender which go over your batten and you ajust to the disired lenght, about £1.50 each, better than having to cut the batten back to the next truss and putting a new...

Remove the 2nd course first, then you can access the first course nails and then the eve course, ive used jenny clips and they work fine. Hope this helps

Call Saggy Felt roofing, they will know what to do!

When ever we were ever questioned about nailing, the normal convo went as followed,Site agent; 'roofer you know these tiles are meant to be nailed every third course!' Roofer; 'Third course! i thought it was every third house!' Only kidding of course. :lol:

Here Here Bob!

Where the ridge tile meets the chimney you should have a saddle piece of lead fixed in to the chimney with lead wedges and dressed over the tiles and the edge in line with the ridges welted over. The ridge is then bedded on top of this, also i normally used lead mate(sealant) to fill the gap...

im surprised there are not more vigilante's about,if you ring the police they do nothing either because there hands are tied with all the red tape protecting the thiefs or hoodies rights or they cant be bothered. If you break the law you should forfeit those human rights regards Dave

Well Nelsy, the fact that man made slates have two nail holes and a hole in the middle of the bottom of the slate should give you a clue that there have been problems with man made fiber slates in the past,but if fitted corectly i don't think you should have too much problems, well i havnt in...

Hi Luke, your lead has probabley split due to thermal movement and the lead being layed in too large pieces,as a very quick fix either do as Corrie says with flexacryl or if you can see where the splits are on the lead then you can use Lead mate, you can apply this with a mastic gun and just...