Agricultural and barn roofing around Tregaron

Tregaron is a small upland market town on the edge of Cors Caron, the great bog, with stone houses around the square and hill farms running up into the Cambrian Mountains behind it. The farms around Tregaron, out towards Pontrhydfendigaid, Llanddewi Brefi, Ystrad Meurig, Bronant, 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 Tregaron

Slate on the town and the old farmhouses, sheet roofs on the modern farm buildings, and long distances between jobs.

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. No conservation area in the town itself, but Cors Caron is a National Nature Reserve and the farms around it fall under agri-environment schemes that can affect how buildings are altered.

Asbestos-cement roofs

Most sheds put up before 2000 around Tregaron 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 high, wet and cold in winter, with the Abergwesyn mountain road behind it and snow that the coast never sees. 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 Tregaron, 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.