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don't do it, its a sacriledge to replace slate with concrete tiles, why can't he just remove your slates and re-lay, replacing any broken ones, and with a breather membrane underneath. that way you don't need to strengthen the roof and you retain the character of the house

it wouldn't be recomended as any water that gets past the tiles has no where to go except into the insulation and rafters. Your main issue will be just how much insulation you need for regs, somewhere towards 130mm of celotex / kingspan at a guess

basically this means the roof is quite old. and yes it will affect converting it as you will find the thickness of insulation you need to meet regs plus the 50mm ventilation gap will intrude into the room. Best bet is to have the roof stripped and re-tiled. Might be worth looking into what...

that is mostly in hand, we will have permission to raise it slightly so that remains an option, at this point I can add a pretty useless architect drew up the plans and I'm not convinced we can raise the roof very simply due to the ancient subsidence you can see on the old building on the...

sadly its listed so we're pretty limited, cambrians we may get away with but not much else other than real slate

Hi there my first post so treat me gently! We've got a bit of a project house part of it has a lovely "fibre cement" roof. We're looking at options of changing this and have a few dilemas. Firstly the building is far from square and secondly isn't even the same width as it goes along. The...