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They still dont fill me with confidence - mother nature can be extremely brutish at times. But I've not much experience of them really, it's just that I am a teeny bit old fashioned, and like to see good old tried and tested methods used in traditional buildings.

Sounds good as long as the firm that's doing it does employ qualified slaters that understand 'random' work (a proper rarity these days and getting rarer!). The problem with the use of underfelt, when nailing direct to sarking, is pretty counter productive really as each and every nail...

Can you tell I am new to this forum?! I poked my nose in without checking all of the previous posts, now I see that I am, at best, just repeating what others have quite ably noted - sorry! Joatmojo

If there is no underfelt then it is a marvel that you have not suffered even more internal water damage. 'Do not' even contemplate having dialog with anyone but a fully skilled Roof Slater/Tiler (emphasis on 'Slater') - especially with a 'random slate' roof constructed in the Scottish manner...

That is a relatively 'new' roof even if the actual slates are original. The roof was not layed by a qualified 'slater'! Check out how many straight bonded perpends you can spot! The only thing keeping the weather out is the underfelt! You say 'sarking board', are you in Scotland?

Sorry, I hasten to add that you should not bang about too much less you loosen the roof slates/tiles - probably best to screw.

Buy, beg, borrow or send the wife out to obtain some scraps of any type of underfelt and cut to size (gap between rafters + 2" down turn each side), tuck into overlap and tack batten a couple of noggings down each rafter to secure - job done . .

Be very, very careful my friend, your roof could well collapse around you! Truss roofs are fashioned exactly and precisely in the most efficient form, to take the most amount of strain and stress, with the least amount of material. Removing, altering ar messing about with any element of it...

It is a pretty simple task to cure roof-space condesation, as well as other problems that airless, stagnant voids generate - create 'positive' ventilation. Try googling for 'lapvent' that's an easy way to DIY it.