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Roofers in Barnoldswick

Roofers in Barnoldswick

Barlick is seven miles from us, and the roofs there sit somewhere between Lancashire and Yorkshire, which is fitting given the town was in the West Riding until 1974 and by most accounts has never entirely accepted the change.

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The roofs in Barnoldswick

That Yorkshire connection shows up on the rooftops, and it is not just sentiment.

Stone slate is more common here than in Nelson or Colne.
You are on the western edge of the Yorkshire stone slate country, and older property in and around the town frequently carries it. Stone slate is sandstone, not slate, laid in diminishing courses with the biggest and heaviest at the eaves. It is a different job from Welsh blue slate in almost every respect: the weight is significant, the roof structure beneath was built specifically to carry it, and salvaged stone has to be sorted and graded before it goes back on.
The town is also a good deal newer in parts than its neighbours.
Barnoldswick grew again around the Rolls-Royce works, so alongside the stone terraces there is a substantial amount of twentieth-century housing under concrete tile, with the usual ridge bedding and porous tile problems.
Exposure is real here.
The town sits high and open, with very little shelter from the west. Verges, ridges and anything at a gable end take a hard life.

Anyone quoting to strip a stone slate roof and re-cover it in something lighter without discussing the structure has not thought it through.

Common questions

Questions we get from Barnoldswick

Yes. Stone slate is a different discipline from Welsh blue slate: the coursing has to be graded by size, the laps work differently, and the weight makes it a structural question as much as a roofing one. Not every roofer takes it on, and it's a large part of the work we do on this side of the patch.

Sometimes, but it is a structural decision and not just a covering one. The roof was built for that weight, and taking it off changes how the structure behaves. It also changes the look of the building considerably. We would want to look properly before anyone commits to that.

Yes, and the villages around them. They are minutes from Barnoldswick.

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Two counties, most weeks

We're in Nelson, so Pendle is our own doorstep. We're out across two counties most weeks.

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