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My mum is/was considering a re-roof. We've lived here 30 years & it's not been done in that time for sure. The slates on our roof are all sorts of sizes & some of them look like ye-olde tombstone slates. One of the sizes was 17x15, there was a 20x12 & a 15x12 i think that blew off the other day.
The house was built either early 1700s (1700-1710) or early 1800s (1800-1810) & is detached.
Anyway she was asking about slate -vs- tiles as i work for a builders merchant. Thing is, i've no clue about roofing products at all.
Someone mentioned to me that it depends - that slate is generally better, but if you get poor quality slate (they mentioned some french stuff) then it's awful, really awful.
Why would you go for one over the other? Is it just cost? How long would either last?
And what would be some good quality tiles/slates?
I know we used to stock Ravendale 7-9mm but apparently you can't get these any more & we've switched to some Estillo slates. I'm no roofing expert but these FEEL crap as they're wafer thin.
Someone told me the tiles as they're concrete wash away in time & are pretty crap themselves. How true this is i don't know.
The house was built either early 1700s (1700-1710) or early 1800s (1800-1810) & is detached.
Anyway she was asking about slate -vs- tiles as i work for a builders merchant. Thing is, i've no clue about roofing products at all.
Someone mentioned to me that it depends - that slate is generally better, but if you get poor quality slate (they mentioned some french stuff) then it's awful, really awful.
Why would you go for one over the other? Is it just cost? How long would either last?
And what would be some good quality tiles/slates?
I know we used to stock Ravendale 7-9mm but apparently you can't get these any more & we've switched to some Estillo slates. I'm no roofing expert but these FEEL crap as they're wafer thin.
Someone told me the tiles as they're concrete wash away in time & are pretty crap themselves. How true this is i don't know.