Slate Roofing Adelaide

Before you get a quote

Four things to know first

• Ask who is authorised to do the work South Australia's Building Work Contractors Act 1995 defines building work to include repairing, improving and altering a building, and bars carrying on business as a building work contractor except as authorised under the Act. This site has read no page saying whether slate roof work is covered, so ask whoever quotes for their contractor number and which work it covers.
• Heritage places are a separate question The State's guide to State Heritage Places lists re-roofing among the work that typically needs development approval, and routine maintenance among the work that does not. Whether a house is a State Heritage Place is for the council to say.
• Leaks are not always the slates A US National Park Service brief on historic slate roofs says not to assume the slates are leaking: gutters, valleys and flashings are more likely. Ask the provider to check those first.
• Many repairs, then a line The same brief says that where 20% or more of the slates on a roof or slope are broken, cracked, missing or sliding out of position, it is usually less expensive to replace the roof than to execute individual repairs.