How To Choose Roof Slates

Now, I'm going to show you how to choose different slates for roofs. This is a cambre slate. It's an interlocking slate.

From a distance, it is a natural looking slate which looks really really nice. This is a natural slate, it is a natural stone and it's quite expensive slate. People have obviously a new slate for a new roof or you can get old ones, you can buy restoration plates.

So, you can ask a slate company which will also be cheaper but obviously the newer slate, there's more to it than it is, you know, a sort of 24 by 12 slate here, you're looking at 3 to 4 pounds per one and you know, an average size house should need 1,000 to 2,000 slates to the roof depending on the size of it. So, it can be quite a lot of money to use these. They do look very nice.

A cheap option is to use these machine made fibreglass slates which probably cost you about a pound each and again, they look nice. From the floor, you know, they are a slate. This slate here is obviously, you can nail it to the top and a copper rib here can be held at the bottom so stop the wind flapping because they're quite light but it is a lot cheaper option to use this.

And that's how to choose different types of slate. .