Agricultural and barn roofing around Lampeter

Lampeter is a small university and market town in the Teifi valley, with Georgian and Victorian buildings along the High Street and College Street, the old St David's College quad, and a large farming district of hill farms. The farms around Lampeter, out towards Cwmann, Llanybydder, Llanwnnen, Cellan, carry every kind of agricultural roof: stone barns in slate, Dutch barns in rusting tin, cattle sheds and workshops in asbestos-cement sheet. Farm roofing is its own trade and we pass your enquiry to a roofer who does it, not a house roofer on a big shed.

The buildings around Lampeter

Slate on the town, a good deal of it old, with a lot of agricultural roofing on the farms: stone barns, Dutch barns and sheet-roofed sheds.

Re-sheeting and re-roofing

Steel sheet

Box-profile or corrugated plastisol-coated steel on checked purlins, with rooflights and ridge ventilation for stock. The fastest way to make a working building dry.

Fibre cement

The asbestos-free sheet that replaces old cement roofs like for like, and the better choice over livestock for condensation.

Stone barns

Re-slated like a house, and if the barn is listed or in a scheme, slate is expected. The town centre and the college are a conservation area, and the college buildings are listed.

Asbestos-cement roofs

Most sheds put up before 2000 around Lampeter are roofed in asbestos cement. Sound sheet can stay and be managed. Removal is non-licensed work under HSE rules if the sheets come down whole and wet, but sheets that will be broken up are notifiable, and the waste must leave with a registered carrier under a consignment note. Ask the contractor to show both.

Weather on the farms

Inland from the coast but still wet, with the Teifi valley funnelling the wind and the winters bringing frost that the coast does not get. Sheet roofs are fixed for that exposure, with stitching screws at the laps and the ridge, and a shed re-sheeted without them loses sheets in the first gale.

How it works

Tell us what the building is, its rough size, what it is used for and what the roof is made of. We pass it to a roofer who does agricultural work around Lampeter, and they visit and quote in writing. Free to use. We do not advise on grants; check the current Welsh Government scheme with Farming Connect.