On 14 Aug, 14:50, " wrote:
On 14 Aug, 14:00, Adam Aglionby wrote:



On 13 Aug, 21:02, Kipper at sea wrote:

On Aug 13, 4:39*pm, harry wrote:

On 13 Aug, 15:25, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:

"Adam Aglionby" wrote in message

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Looking at getting late 1880`s 4 storey tenement re-slated, exposed
position , scotch slates are slipping towards gutter at increasing
rate, lead work evaporating etc. Flat platform in middle recovered 4
years ago.

Seem to have decided on Spanish slate as against reclaimed Scotch on
balance of cost and apperance, some areas would have to be Scotch, not
here.

Welsh Slate is the best in the world ... *and no carbon offset bringing
across Europe.

Welsh slate IS the best. You can have thinner slates and a lighter
roof and they weather significantly better, better appearance and last
longer. *The trouble is the Taffs don't work as cheap as the spics,
the chinks or the portuguese.

Wrong.. The reason Welsh slates are more expensive is the amout of
waste in selection of quality and yes apart from Westmoreland slate
Welsh are second to none.

Looking at cost, Welsh seems to come inat around double cost of
Spanish, one company tried to sell us on Canadian!? which sems a bit
of a carbon cost.

Is there a Euro/BS/BBA someat spec should ask for the slates to meet?

Thanks
Adam

I believe there's a BSxxxx, but practically the roofing company you
select will be used to using certain suppliers. Get a recommendation,
look at their work, and talk to some recent customers.

27 roofers, lot dont` phone back or don`t turn up to quote, 11 quotes
for wildly varying levels of works at wildly varying prices in very
differnt levels of detail.

Now have preferred bidder just wabnt to make sure we agree on a spec
as its been open to some debate, not having to buy a football pitch of
reclaimed Scotch slate was bit of a relief though.

Spanish slate from quick google comes in everything from solidity of
out of date sherbert to still around at next ice age, like to just
make sure no questions about substitutions from spec to site.

Cheers
Adam