Description

• The Cwt-y-Bugail slate quarry in Ffestiniog, North Wales has been producing slates from 1840, and is currently the highest industrial site in the UK
• Cwt-y-Bugail is now an open cast quarry although originally the quarry was mined
• During World War 2, many of Britain’s most valuable paintings were secretly stored in its caverns for safe-keeping!
• Cwt-y-Bugail roofing slates are a blue/grey colour and have a distinctive texture which makes them highly sought after, and also popular as an architectural material
• Cwt-y-Bugail roofing slates come in standard sizes of 50x25cm (other sizes are available on request), and in 3 thicknesses: Capital grade (5.5mm nominal thickness) County grade (7.5mm nominal thickness) Celtic grade (9.5mm nominal thickness)
• Cwt-y-Bugail slates conform to BS EN 12326-1: 2014 (W1, S1, T1), hold BS Kitemark accreditation and are generally expected to outlive the life of a building
• These slates have a lifespan measured in centuries and include a 100 year guarantee