Help - Rough Price for Roof tiles

[TRACEYTREACLE]

Hi we have been looking to buy a property for renovation and the roof needs doing in the Aveyron area.  It has Lauze Roof Tiles and wondered if anybody had a rough idea how much these are per sqm or if you have had this style of roof doing how much did it cost to be done properly.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Tracey & Mark

[Ron Avery]

Is just the tiles that need replacing or the boarding or the charpente (structure)?

 For stripping and storing lauzes we were charged about 12€ a sq M and replacement lauzes will cost between 35 and 50€ a sq m (good quality replacement lauzes are very expensive). 

If it is the boarding or charpente  you will need a carpenter and good ones are hard to find in 12, just look  in Pages Jaune.  Roofers only do the tiles and guttering.  The cost of the structure and boarding will depend on the wood you use and the area to be covered, get a couple of devis for the work, if you can find a roofer and carpenter who is not tied up with work for the next two years 

[LesFlamands]

Lauzes roofs in the Dordogne are stone. The few that I have looked at have no boarding but each row of Lauze are 'clamped' in place using a hazel or poplar strap. It is considered very specialised work here and the last time I got a price from someone ( 1996 ) I think it was about 1500 Francs/sq.metre plus materials. Grants are available here for this sort of thing.

[Ron Avery]

[quote]Lauzes roofs in the Dordogne are stone. The few that I have looked at have no boarding but each row of Lauze are 'clamped' in place using a hazel or poplar strap. It is considered very specialised wor...[/quote]

Lauzes are actually very thick slate.  You can get them cut from new, but don't know the cost.  I have a pile in various condition sitting in my field just taken off my old barn if anyone is interested, we are near Villefranche de rouergue in 12

[Miki]

We have had some dealings over the years with Lauzes and it really can change form region to region, the way I read it, both Charles and Ron have it right and slatestone would probably be the British way of describing it. I have seen it boarded and unboarded.

Looking at Lauze rooves in the Dordogne it really does have the correct impression of stone. In the south it can look darker and have characteristics of slate. I have even seem matching rooves and floors in a few regions of France !

[Hoddy]

The lauze roofs in the Dordogne are limestone. I always think that the specialism required to build them is a bit like thatching in England. New ones are extremely expensive. A friend had a mock borie built as a small garden shed and had a lauze roof on it.  I remember being stunned at the cost of the stone, but I can't remember now exactly how much it was.

Hoddy