How old is your roof?!

[Beach1983]

We have just moved into a 1930’s property and we knew from the survey that that the roof needed attention “close to the end of its life” according to survey. However it’s not leaking and have been advised to repair broken and slipped tiles and should be ok for a while yet. I’m so paranoid every time it rains (always lived in new builds!) but there is no money for roof replacement at the moment, how old is your roof and is it still going strong? Hoping we have another few years left so we can save to replace it!

House built 1956.

Moved in 1994 and survey said asbestos tiled roof with max 10 years life left in it.

Reroofed completely with slate in 2014 due to innumerable leaks popping up here and there.

We're in a 20's semi and - aside from a few obvious patching jobs and a Velux window - I believe it's the original terracotta tiled roof.

It's a bit of a nightmare, to be honest. We know there are rotten battens up there inn the valley areas where one slope joins another, we have had a leak that's been repaired, and we may or may not have issues causing some sort of leak into the walls. Honestly, I have no idea where to start and feel oppressed by it all.

I'm trying to get someone in who gave me a quote earlier this year, to re-roof all the valley areas, but as a ball-park figure, what have people been paying for a total re-roof recently? We're in the south/south midlands.

Our house is a similar vintage and still has the original roof, well most of it. A lot of the torching - the plaster stuff adhering to the underside of the tiles - is now lying in drifts on the crap stuff we store in the loft. Every time it's been very windy, we have to be careful opening the loft hatch as a maeltrom of dust pours down onto the luckless spouse below. With the loft light switched off, you can definitely see daylight in a few places too, although the actual tiles themselves look sound.

I really want a loft conversion so would want to redo the roof as part of that. No idea if or when that'll happen though.

What on earth do you mean "it isn't that ethical"?

Ever met a roofer or a steeplejack?

1890s house here which we put a new roof on in 2010.

It's an ancient thread but roofs are replaced on condition not age, because there are vast differences in build quality and material.
Ours was replaced when we remodelled the upstairs and rebuilt it, but plenty of neighbours have the original 100 year old roof.
Also literally all surveyors will use the same argument about old clay tiled roofs being "close to end of life, maybe 10 years". This is because no surveyor was ever sued for saying that, so it's the safest comment to put, not because they know something magical.