"dmc" wrote in message ...
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Bob Mannix wrote:

It rather depends how long you plan staying there! Lead/Zinc are 80/40
years (impossible to say, really, but these are guidelines)

GRP (as your builder and the other poster says) 20-25

Ashphalt say 15-20 (not very common but I was offered this)

Felt 10-15

Any feel for the comparitive prices of these?

Darren


Not as much difference as you might think but I can't give today's figures.
I was going to have asphalt but in the end the loft company man said he had
so much lead reflashing to do round the chimney he might as well get the
lead man to do the roof at no extra charge. He made an excellent job of it.
Lead roofs aren't "flat" as the lead comes in sheets which are formed over
wooden formers where they overlap - I will send you a piccie if I can find
it.



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