Agricultural and barn roofing around Llanfyllin

Llanfyllin is a small market town in the Cain valley, known for its Georgian red-brick houses along the High Street, with stone cottages and farms across the hills towards Lake Vyrnwy. The farms around Llanfyllin, out towards Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llansantffraid, Meifod, Llanwddyn, 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 Llanfyllin

Slate on the town houses and cottages, with old corrugated and asbestos-cement sheeting on many of the farm buildings in the district.

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 High Street is a conservation area, and the Georgian brick fronts mean a re-roof is expected to keep the slate and the chimney lines.

Asbestos-cement roofs

Most sheds put up before 2000 around Llanfyllin 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

It is in the lee of the Berwyn foothills and gets long spells of rain and the winter winds that come down the valley from Lake Vyrnwy. 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 Llanfyllin, 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.