On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 12:16:42 +0000, 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.

A neighbour recently had her (Victorian) slate roof replaced (I
mentioned it here at the time) the vast majority must have been
salvaged and taken away as there weren't that many broken in the front
garden and they didn't have a skip.

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.

I was interested to see if neighbour was given any discount on the
original slates (she wasn't) and what the new ones were and
'luckily'(?) they were real slate, albeit Spanish .. so at least not
synthetic?

Unless the old slates were somehow factored into the deal, I would
have offered to buy some off her as most of mine were re-used when we
did this roof around 30 years ago and my immediate neighbour still
needs his doing and loses one now and again.

Cheers, T i m