Slate is its own trade
Slate has its own fasteners, its own headlaps and its own way of being walked on. It is not a shingle job with heavier tiles, and a crew that treats it as one will break more than it lays.
Stage 03 Roof types & materials
Slate Roofing
Slate is the roof you install once. Natural stone that is generally reckoned in centuries rather than decades, or modern synthetic slate that captures the look at a fraction of the weight and cost.
Straight about this job
What you get
Natural or synthetic
True quarried slate for historic homes, or composite slate that delivers the aesthetic with easier structural requirements.
Repair and restoration
Many "failed" slate roofs just need flashing work and selective slate replacement — we tell you honestly which yours is.
Straight answers
Slate Roofing — the questions we get
Can my house support natural slate?
Natural slate is heavy — a structural check comes first. If your framing can't take it, synthetic slate delivers the same look at roughly a third of the weight.
Day 0 stage one
Get into the queue
Ring it through and we will triage it on the phone — (865) 555-0172. If typing is easier, this reaches the same desk.
- The inspection and the photo report cost nothing.
- You keep the photographs whether or not you hire us.
- No claim outcome, payout or deductible is ever implied.
Start at stage one.
Describe what you can see from the ground. We will tell you whether this is a tarp-tonight problem or a Tuesday problem — and we will say so either way.