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Can you not replace the roof and then re-bed the brickwork in afterwards?

Firstly re-pointing is not recommended as the mortar will fall back out in a year or two. The correct way is to take off, clean down and re-bed with 3-1 building sand /cement mix. The mix bag of sand and cement you got from Screw fix will be a mix for brickwork which is a weaker mix than that...

Correct, before the common use of sarking felt all roofs had torching on tile/slate battens. The torching was an unusual mixture of sand/sometimes coal dust, horse hair and lime. Bizarrely I was once stopped from taking off a roof because of the possible risk of coming into contact with...

You could think of using a "dry ridge and hip system" as an alternative which uses mechanical fixings too.

Your cheapest option might be to get your local "sympathetic" roofer to "torch on" some 4mm green mineral for you, it won’t look as nice but it will be dry and will work at that pitch.

You would need scaffolding and a handmade wooden crawler made from tile batten fixed to the scaffold boards would be the most forgiving. The question you want to ask the roofer is if he can source some second hand slate to match the original for any breakages.

Is the chimney still being used? If not then it can simply be taken down and re-tiled over.

Flat roofs, if carried out correctly can and do have water pooling on them without any problems at all, what I would be more concerned about is the open ridge ends? Where is the cement and what is is stopping the birds nesting in them or any other infestations occurring?

In my point of view there are so many of them all proposing to give you that edge but all they are about is taking money off you. I have looked into a good many of them and there are none that will actually verify your work and also there seems to be no governing body as such, other than self...

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