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The material
There are several types of roof construction but not all of these are obvious when you look at the outside of a building. It is usually the roofing materials that give our historic buildings so much character and a wide variety were used across the UK. Tiles and flags were a common material and usually made of stone. But they varied in size and shape depending on which part of the roof they were used on and where in the UK the building was. Slates were more commonly used on roofs from the eighteenth century, mainly for grander buildings and then in the nineteenth century for most buildings types.
The skill
As with all traditional materials, a roof slater and tiler needs to be able to make best use of the original roof covering and be able to use traditional methods for fixing both the original and replacement tiles or slates in place.
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