- Location
- Abbey Wood
- Type of work
- Slate
- Completed
- 23 July 2026
- Services
- Slate, Re-Roofs
About this project
This Abbey Wood roof should have had decades of life left in it. Instead, sub-standard workmanship meant it was failing after less than five years.
The team stripped the roof back to the rafters, fitted new breathable felt and 25 x 50 mm treated battens, and re-slated it in Eternit fibre cement slate with proper head-lap and fixings on every slate.
The in-progress photographs show the bare battens and the finished slate side by side: a clean, uniform roof around the chimney stacks that will last as a slate roof should.
Work completed
- Full strip of failed slate roof
- Breathable felt and 25 x 50 mm treated battens
- Eternit fibre cement slates, twice-fixed
- Ridge and abutment detailing around chimney stacks
Photographs
Project gallery
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“New slate roof completed by the team last week using new eternit fibre cement slate. New breathable felt and new 25x50 treated battens. This roof was less than 5 years old such poor quality.”
