Lacan07
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Hi all
My neighbour and I have erected scaffolding around the Oast House we share in preparation to re-slate the roof which is looking rather worse for wear. Initially we thought we would retain as much of the old slate as possible to reuse and incorporate new slate when necessary, but now we wondering if it might not make a cleaner job to just re-slate it all with new. The new tiles are Spanish, apart from the expense is there any reason to incorporate the old? I have this thing in my head that old is often better than new but the old slate will have multiple holes in them and we're worried about future breakage and slipping, etc no matter how thoroughly we check them. The Oast house is pretty inaccessible and any slipping or loose tile can only be fixed with a scaffolding tower erected.
Any experience of this would be much appreciated.
Thanks. P
My neighbour and I have erected scaffolding around the Oast House we share in preparation to re-slate the roof which is looking rather worse for wear. Initially we thought we would retain as much of the old slate as possible to reuse and incorporate new slate when necessary, but now we wondering if it might not make a cleaner job to just re-slate it all with new. The new tiles are Spanish, apart from the expense is there any reason to incorporate the old? I have this thing in my head that old is often better than new but the old slate will have multiple holes in them and we're worried about future breakage and slipping, etc no matter how thoroughly we check them. The Oast house is pretty inaccessible and any slipping or loose tile can only be fixed with a scaffolding tower erected.
Any experience of this would be much appreciated.
Thanks. P