Slate Roofing Costs ?

[Mutiara]

Hi, has anyone recently had a quote for a new slate roof and could indicate how much we should expect to be paying per m2 ? I don't want to waste anyones time in calling round artisans to quote as I have no idea if we can afford it or not yet. We have around 90m2 of roof to do.

Apparently our rafters are Ok and fairly straight and our neighbour Henri (French), seems to think that we just need re- battening and slating . The existing slates are nailed to the roof and he says we need new slates and battens fixed with crochest ???

Any help much appreciated.

[Northender]

Do you mean tiles ?

Quite a difference in cost.

[Mutiara]

No I think I said slates in my post ?

[dragonrouge]

There are slates and there are slates.  Being Welsh I somewhat grew up with the concept.  Todays slate as in natural comes from normally Spain and should be differentiated from the fibrous slate which does not quite look the same.  Your neighbour is referring to the stainless steel hooks which hold all the slates together.  Also for that run of slate roof I suggest it could look like a jail unless the roofer puts some form of design in it.  We had in Normandie a huge gable end and the roofer really did a good job by incorporating some designs into the overall work.

[Mutiara]

Thanks - that's nice to know but does anyone have an answer to my question !? I just want a rough price for natural Spanish slates per m2 please?

Any takers ?

[LesFlamands]

Depends on the size and overlay of the slates, copper or stainless crochets and many other factors and doesn't include removing the existing but the price books indicate between 130 euros and 200 euros per sq.m.. (about 30% labour/70% materials).

[Northender]

LesFlamands wrote the following post at 23/01/2009 18:52:

Depends on the size and overlay of the slates, copper or stainless crochets and many other factors and doesn't include removing the existing but the price books indicate between 130 euros and 200 euros per sq.m.. (about 30% labour/70% materials).

Seems pricey for materials , I've just paid £30/sq.m for Brazilian (22 @ 250 x 500).

[Alane]

OK - I'll give you a rough price based on my roof. In 2005 I had a slate roof - 300 sq m replaced. Including removal of old slates and battens (removed from site), repair and replacement of some rotten roof timbers, removal of an old dormer which was rotten, felt, new battens, replacement of all guttering with zinc gutters and downpipes, stainless crochets, creation of 5 new dormer windows framed in substantial oak timbers the total cost was about £23k at the then rate of exchange which I recall was about 1.4/1.5 to the £ so around 30-32k Euros. I'm afraid I don't have the devis to hand so this is an estimate but won't be far out.

Against all good advice I only got 1 quote because this guy was praised to the heavens by all the neighbours and the Maire, I'd seen other work he'd done and it was around the price I expected.

This was by a registered French artisan in Normandy. The job was superb with patterned work and intricate zinc work on the dormers.

With hingsight I would have specified breathable felt and black painted crochets

[BIG MAC]

 

I can let you have details of a legitimate quote received recently for work in 53

 

Devis	Value	Schedule ref	Description	Quant	Unit rate	Measure	TVA	Collect
DE00186	11,257.45 €	AR00001	Ardoise Naturel (Slate) 330 x 220mm	2400.00	0.52	1248.00	5.50	1316.64
		AR00125	Faitage 400mm	16.00	10.22	163.52	5.50	172.51
		AR00011	Chevron 50 x 75mm 5.5ml	16.00	12.16	194.56	5.50	205.26
		AR00012	Liteau (lath) 4 MI	160.00	1.04	166.40	5.50	175.55
		AR00013	Crochet (Slate hook) 9mm Qty. 750	4.00	29.90	119.60	5.50	126.18
		AR00009	Sous Toiture liner M2	65.00	2.63	170.95	5.50	180.35
		AR00014	Crochet Goutier (Gutter bracket)	18.00	2.17	39.06	5.50	41.21
		AR00010	Gouitier en zinc MI	7.00	21.06	147.42	5.50	155.53
		AR00110	Tuyau de Descente zinc 2M	12.00	16.85	202.20	5.50	213.32
		AR00123	Lucarne 1150 x 900 Chene	2.00	1660.00	3320.00	5.50	3502.60
		AR00017	Xyclothene treatment de bois (wood treatment) Litre	1.00	2.86	2.86	5.50	3.02
		AR00016	Main d'oeuvre.  Pose de trois fenetre toit fournis par de client (Labour)	136.00	36.00	4896.00	5.50	5165.28
			To replace existing roof including changing of chevrons where necessary , replacement of all laths, underfelt (Tyvek extreme) Reslate in 320 x 220 natural slate. Zinc work to chimney and new zinc guttering to front of house. Fit new zinc downpipes. All materials except roof windows (Velux) to be supplied within this devis. To fabricate and install two oak framed dormer windows complete with double glazed hardwood windows. Form new gable ladder and carry out localised masonry repair to ensure weather tight as discussed.

[Northender]

Looking at Big Macs devis , if you take away the material cost of the 2 oak windows ( 3500E) it works out around 120E per sqm with 66% lab. /33% materials split.

[BIG MAC]

Worth pointing out that my roof is about 60sq m and costs include batten replacement and breather membrane along with the formation of gable ladder also the building is an irregular shape so not the simplest job.

[Mutiara]

Thank you everybody for the input so far . Big Mac I have sent you a PM.

If anyone else has any more information it will be gratefully accepted.

[Rascalb]

We are also in 53, but husband did our new roof (58 sqM) himself from scratch and would just like to confirm Big Mac's qoute sems the same price range that ours cost us in summer 2007. We got our total costs including timer frame, battens,felt,crotchets and nails etc to £4200 (cannot put hand on original receipts at moment). Should point out he only did it himself because it was single storey! We used Riviere in Laval for our supplies and found them helpful and competitive.