I bought recycled welsh slates for my many year roof repair project,
I then discovered it could have been a lot cheaper to buy new Spanish or Chinese slates

[g]

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:16:48 PM UTC, Andrew wrote:
On 09/12/2020 09:54, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy some broken slate for our front yard.

It's just occurred to me that about 18 months ago when we had the
kitchen roof sorted the roofer replaced 50 slates.
I never thought to keep them, but now.....

:Facepalm:
If they were old victorian slates then he sold them on for a
nice price.

In Last Sundays "Escape to the Chateaux" Dick and Angel
had a lorry load of recovered welsh slate trucked over
to France all the way from Wales. Expensive.