42 thoughts on “Slate Roof Repair – How to replace a slate & broken slates”

1. Great job

2. excellent video, thank you

3. Wow, you are a natural born teacher. Thank-you for an excellent tutorial.

4. Another great video. Don't get the dislikes. Super informative and such a nice guy sharing his knowledge. Thanks very much.

5. Thanks – great video

6. Great video buddy. Clear and to the point. Love the accent to me duck!! Ha ha all the best

7. Please come to Norwich and fix my Victorian terraced slate roof!!!!!

8. Thanks that was great and so easy

9. liked it. Thank for sharing

10. Brilliant as usual. Full of sense, clarity and inspires a great deal of confidence.

11. Excellent series of videos, well made and highly informative. Thank you very much for taking the time to make them and put them live.

12. What can I say ? Again another excellent video clear informative and a big help . Thank you .

13. Fascinating and a very clear instruction!

14. Thanks for giving a concise instruction on replacing slates. I have now sorted my broken slates.

15. Great video I an an ex pat who restores slat roofs in the usa and also have products from reclaimed slate at vermontslateplates.com

16. true. I'm used to working on new roofs and I suppose I use them techniques on old repairs. I'm not going to say I've never used lead clip as I personally think it's acceptable I hate those guys who pull out mastic guns to hold them in. like I said love the video really we explained to those who haven't the money and are willing to do themselves! I look at other trades videos alot for projects of my own. nice job mate

17. nhbc standards now ask that you use proper slate hook instead of lead clips as the hot cold weather will make the lead clip drop back flat then there will be nothing holding the slate in otherwise brilliant video for those who need a repair and cannot afford to pay professionals to do job. good job mate!!

18. Thats a great video, you obviously know what you're doing and I'm so grateful you are sharing your trade knowledge. The photo shop aspects are a great addition too. Im in Scotland where we get a bit of rain and wind occasionally, my roof is covered in sarking and the slates are fixed on top of this (presumably on battens?) the slates are quite thick and rough looking, someone told me they may be Ballachulish slate, its been up there since 1930, one roofer told me tears ago that the slate goes porous after a while, I think he was at it, but maybe you can shed some light on that? I assumed that the concrete tiles go porous but slate doesnt?

19. brilliant upload buddy

20. Very clear thanks

21. Great vid if I had a problem with my roof I would send for you

22. Great video thanks. If you were to say repair half section of roof, would you do this kind of connection with the last tiles across that section of roof? Say 10 tiles across? Or how would you do it?

23. that was really helpful. Heading to the roof store now and wanted some inkling of what I was looking for in tools, techniques, and use… thanks for sharing the knowledge.. this will be my first attempt with tiles after a recent storm dropped a branch and broke a handful of them

24. Absolutely great!  Thanks.

25. That was a text book explanation! Well done and well articulated. Bravo!

26. Excellent video, thank you very much!

27. Great vid, especially with the photo shop ideas,can now repair the odd slate, if i can find the guts to get back on a ladder……

28. Great information very well explained,I'm about to attempt to fit a velox window, I guess I could use this repair method to open up the opening needed in my slate roof? other wise I will have to take the lot off.Thanks for your help.

29. With the magic of photoshop… good one.

30. well done !!! really easy to understand ,very practical …anyone at home can do it. manny thanks .

31. Great video… thanks for the tips

32. A very informative video on how to replace slates. Thank you for sharing!

33. Great job.  Really helpful.  Love the mix of photoshop x-ray diagrams and real life action. Would zinc do instead of lead for the tingles?

34. Excellent, very helpful, thanks

35. I love the people on here trying to tell you how its done with copper nails. yawn, british houses last for decades, centuries even, they dont blow over in a stiff breeze like America. Keep rocking your roofing bud, ignore these back seat roofers.

36. Very informative thanks for posting Great job well done

37. What a amazing video, really impress how to repair and replace roof. Great work.

38. Hi, great vid… is there a reason on a slate roof, that a slate ripper could not be used. We are interested in buying a house, when i looked in loft daylight was coming through either side of chimney where a creeper vine had worked through, and a few slipped tiles had exposed daylight, also in the corners there are patches of holes, someone said it would need a full retile? As you have to start from top of roof to replace the slate tiles, theres no membraine either, so from loft you can see underside of tiles…

39. I've always wondered about how slates were replaced, now I know.  Great video.

40. Just bought a 1925 rriwhouse in DC. The garage roof is missing slate and leaking in several places. This video is incredibly rich content. Can't wait to DIY this!

41. Excellent video – many thanks. I'm a Chartered Building Surveyor and need to get my hands dirty repairing my roof before winter. Your videos have been great in helping me put theory into practise. Once again, thank you.

42. Great video thank you.  I assume one of the reasons you use a strip of lead is because you've got loads of scraps of the stuff in the van.  Is there anything else that can be used or improvised without having to buy a huge pack, or roll?  I'm not a roofer and I only have on slate I need to repair.  Thanks.

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