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Yes, it's been a hard and expensive lesson learned. One that I expect will cost me more money to correct in a few years time.

Thanks for your advice. It makes a bit of sense now that he originally wanted to use concrete roof tiles. At this point I think I just have to keep an eye on it and hope they come good on the 25 year guarantee. If I had the money, I'd be getting a different roofer to put the slate back on...

Do you think I should get it redone? As in get someone to redo the battens or replace the felt? Realistically, is this going to cause issues in the next 10 years?

Right, I knew there'd be corners cut. Thanks for flagging. How bad could this potentially be? They're giving a 25 year guarantee on the roof but that doesn't mean much to me after what's happened. Realistically, should I be forking out and getting someone else to fix this disaster? Or should I...

To be honest, this thread would not be happening if the roofer hadn't taken me for an idiot (which I admittedly was) and tried to take it one step further by changing the fibre cement slate to concrete tiles, which after one quick google, I can see requires planning permission and a structural...

Here's the roof currently for anyone interested. I've got all the original slate safely stored away. From what I can tell 95% of them were in immaculate condition and we even had some spare in the garage. I reckon we would have only needed to source 30 odd new slates, so he's swindled himself...

If he wanted to walk I'd have been happy with that too. I knew it would cost more due to the labour and asked him up front about this. The real problem is the dishonesty. If he was factoring this into the price, why wasn't that mentioned? And when I called him with my concern about the concrete...

This is the part I'm nervous about. We looked up the dimensions of the slate and they go for about £4 each reclaimed. I estimate there are around 700 of them in fine condition, so that's around £2.8k. I realise now that I've been an idiot and this guy just saw gold on our roof. The worst part is...

The other half are already off just sitting on top of the scaffolding. I've told them to leave them there and I'll get the rest down myself this evening. He seemed a bit flabbergasted but I reminded him that he'd told us they were of no use so I'm happy to save him a job and take them off his...

Update with a picture of the slate I've salvaged from one half of the roof so far. Roofer has agreed to go with the lightweight fibre cement slate and let us keep the slate coming off. When I told him we wanted it he was clearly caught out and started talking about putting it back on and that...

Opposite actually. We are Welsh and he's English! I think we've decided that when he turns up today we're going to agree to the original deal of replacing with fiber cement slates for the 25 year guarantee, but inform him that we're keeping the slate. I've got half of it down off the roof...

Sorry, fiber cement is what I meant. Not sure where concrete fiber came from, my head is in a spin today. Yes, I have a contract but fiber cement is what was in the contract. If he refuses to put the slate back on, am I better off stopping the work and finding someone else to finish the job?

My partner and I recently purchased our first home in South Wales. It's a 1930s build with a welsh slate roof. I don't know how old the roof is but it could potentially be as old as the house. The survey flagged up that the underfelt and battens needed replacing and we had several quotes to do...