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Tile Effect Cladding Over Existing Pitched Roof

  • 21-02-2014 11:26pm
    #1
    thunderwing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭


    I'm looking at an old house, it has a pitched slate roof that has no waterproof membrane, its slate to rafters with cement underneath, is it possible to put a new roof with cladding sheets over the existing roof, if so would this be easier,cheaper,quicker then removing existing slates putting on waterproof membrane and replacing slates and whatever other probs that might pop up.
    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    thunderwing wrote: »
    I'm looking at an old house, it has a pitched slate roof that has no waterproof membrane, its slate to rafters with cement underneath, is it possible to put a new roof with cladding sheets over the existing roof, if so would this be easier,cheaper,quicker then removing existing slates putting on waterproof membrane and replacing slates and whatever other probs that might pop up.
    Thanks in advance

    Do you need a waterproof membrane? I've a 100 year old house with no membrane and it's fine.

    What you suggest doing with cladding over slate strikes me as a complete bodge. One which is likely to make a pig's ear of your roof.

    Cladding sheeting on an old, slate roofed house. Whatever will they think of next!


  • #3
    galwaytt
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    there's an 80' bungalow near me where they did that about 12 years ago. They had to re-do it last year.

    I see no sense, and a huge amount of detailing issues in doing it tbh - easier, probably cheaper, and probably quicker to strip off existing slates and re-roof. I would sark existing roof, membrane, counter batten, slate batten and re-slate.

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  • #4
    BryanF
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    +1


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