Saving money on the roof

As we were converting an old barn - but also extending it - we had to decide whether to use the old slates or not. It turned out that we had good quality Welsh slates, but there wasn't enough to cover the extension of the barn.We had a couple of options open to us 1. Buy more Welsh slates and mix them in with the existing ones or remove all the existing slates and buy a complete set of new ones. Now we did get a price for reclaimed Welsh ones however financially and aesthtically it made better sense to buy a whole new set. Since the original slates had been on the barn for best part of 90 years were decided that their intergrity could not be relied on.We bought Brazilian slate in the end and to ofset the cost we sold all our existing Welsh slates to a reclamation yard.