Slate roof replacement. Am I being screwed?
Slate roof replacement. Am I being screwed?
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 this. Two of them told us that they existing slate roof would also need replacing and suggested using fiber cement slates instead (my first regret is that I did not do more research into this claim)...
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by JaguarShark
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Slate roof replacement. Am I being screwed?
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 this. Two of them told us that they existing slate roof would also need replacing and suggested using fiber cement slates instead (my first regret is that I did not do more research into this claim)...
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by JaguarShark
This has been automatically posted in the DIYNot Forum on DIY Talk. The new DIY Forum