Replacing Plastic Sheet roof with slates

[ScottishGasMan]

Hey all. Whilst planning out money for doing up what I can in the house, I have been looking at the utility room roof, at the moment its one of those plastic roofs, (solid walls on 3 sides/plastic roof/double glazing-sliding door to the outside)

The light is nice in there during the day, but its freezing and a spittle of rain sounds like cats and dogs litteraly falling on the roof, being in scotland, its usualy cold, always raining, and there wont often be much light to come in through the roof.

Id like to replace it with some sheets of wood, and felt/slate over it, fit some insulation to the underside and plasterboard that as a new ceiling.

These are the current pics, is this possible? possible using the existing frame would you think?

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[ree]

Sorry, but using the existing frame is a no. Plus the pitch is too low. Plus the "studding" requires a re-build. So on the face of it, its a no go.

Perhaps, as a future consideration, why not demolish the plastic roof area, and pull the rear wall back into line with the adjacent lean to. Then frame a new roof with lookout rafters at the same pitch as the adjacent roof?
Strip the lean to slates, and re-arrange them with new slates to run up and meet at a common course with the main roof.

Maybe, if it needs it, strip & re-slate the main roof, and blend in all the slates. Just thinking.

As you can see, there have already been slate size and pitch changes.

 

[catlad]

no.