WELSH SLATE
PENRHYN QUARRY
BETHESDA
BANGOR
GWYNEDD LL57 4YG
Tel: 01248 600656
Fax: enquiries@welshslate.com
Suppliers of: Roofing slates, slate cladding, slate paving, slate floor tiles, walling, sills and copings, decorative & construction aggregates, monoliths & feature stones, fire surrounds/hearths and worktops/counters.
Welsh Slate is the world’s leading supplier of high-quality slate and supplies the UK construction market with highly durable roofing slates, facade cladding, slate paving, walling, sills, copings, decorative and construction aggregates and hard landscaping products. For internal projects, Welsh Slate manufacture and supply slate tiles for flooring, fire surrounds, bespoke kitchen worktops and counters.
Environmentally Responsible
Welsh Slate’s Penrhyn quarry has been supplying roofing slate worldwide since the 13th Century and has a long tradition of being specified by architects, and our client base also includes leading developers and interior designers. As a result of our work we are committed to conducting our business in an environmentally responsible manner by minimising the environmental impact and promoting sustainable development within its operations and services. Welsh Slate operates an Environmental Management System EMS 539237 certified to ISO 14001
CPD Seminar
This seminar is designed to help architect and specifiers to understand the manufacturing process and the potential applications of Welsh Slate as a building material. It will explain the advantages and problems with slate and clarify the difference between differnent slates from around the world. The presentation will inform delegates of the variety of applications for Welsh Slate and provide information on the standards, accreditations, classifications and fixing methods.
CPD Factory Tour
The two hour tour will demonstrate the current slate quarrying and production processes while in addition giving you some hands on experience of working with a natural product. For enquiries or to arrange a CPD please telephone our sales office on the telephone number above or alternatively click here and fill out an enquiry form.
Our wide range of products include:
Roofing Slate
Welsh slate is proven to out last any other roofing material and is guaranteed to have a productive life in excess of 100 years. Available in three colour variants and three thickness grades and can be supplied up to 1.2 meters wide.
Welsh Slate roofing is produced in accordance with BS EN 12326
Hard Landscaping
Welsh Slate can be used for a wide variety of domestic or commercial garden and landscaping applications. Welsh Slate can provide colour, texture and unique practical qualities for any hard landscaping project.
Welsh Slate is easily maintained and hard wearing, making it perfect for paths, patios, walling, coping stone, monoliths, feature stones and other hard landscaping focal points. The unique chemical qualities of Welsh Slate means it will not alter the PH values of soils and it’s safe to use with pond life. Welsh Slate’s natural durability and resistance to weather, temperature, mossing, and colour erosion make it superbly adaptable and probably the most flexible material.
Exteriors
Welsh Slate is the perfect natural exterior construction product. It’s non-porous, exceptionally uniform, inert, non-combustible and probably the most adaptable material for the widest range of exterior applications including cladding, sills and steps & thresholds. Slate is totally unreactive to both acid and alkali, this chemical stability makes it compatible with all other building materials
Available in various colours and finishes, with naturally occurring veining and textures
Interiors
Welsh Slate is practical, easily maintained, and beautiful and is used in interiors for its natural beauty, hard-wearing properties and uniqueness and can add a smooth warm to touch finish or texture to flooring, cladding and worktops. Slate flooring works well with underfloor heating.
Construction Aggregates and Minerals
Construction slate aggregate is supplied for use in precast and ready-mixed concrete, road building and civil engineering. Slate granules are used to produce bituminous roofing felts and artificial slate roofing tiles. Testing information is available on request.
Further technical information, image galleries and product specifications are available through the Welsh Slate website or via the BPi Download Library.
Welsh Slate helps build a bridge to 2030
Welsh Slate helps build a bridge to 2030
Welsh Slate products to feature on Terrence Higgins Trust’s garden at RHS Chelsea.
A showcase of Welsh Slate products will feature on the ‘Terrence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 garden’ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year (May 21-25).
Supported by grant-giving charity Project Giving Back and designed by Matthew Childs who grew up in Wales, it will celebrate the work of Terrence Higgins Trust and its 2030 vision of there being no new HIV cases, where people with HIV are supported and live well and there is good sexual health for all.
The garden is inspired by rejuvenated slate quarry landscapes, which are used as a metaphor for resilience and how much things have changed with HIV in the UK since the 1980s.
Key features in the garden include a striking monolith Welsh Slate stepping stone bridge and steps produced from custom cuts and bi-product of Ffestiniog slate. Supplementing this will be a textural path produced from Type 2 pillared, rustic and narrow pillared walling, all from the Ffestiniog quarry.
The path will be complemented by a contemporary dry stone wall produced from reclaimed Ffestiniog walling slate, in addition to planting in crevices created by Ffestiniog primary off-cuts - sawn off-cuts from slate blocks before they are split.
Boulders from Welsh Slate’s Penrhyn Quarry will also feature throughout the garden - one as a balancing sculpture, one as part of Welsh designer Swyn Anwyl Williams’ furniture design, and another will have cuts as a water feature.
Reclaimed Ffestiniog roofing slates will clad the interior sides of the tiered garden pond at the front of the garden, and paths and garden mulches will be formed from Welsh Slate aggregate - Grey Blinding 14mm to dust and Grey 10mm to 20mm.
Matthew said: “I decided that the idea for a garden that I’d had 10 years ago was something I wanted to make happen and the generosity of Welsh Slate has been instrumental in helping me achieve my vision for the Bridge to 2030 garden.”
Welsh Slate tops the heights, and the menu, at The Peninsula London
London’s latest luxury hotel, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels’ first in the UK, has opened to much acclaim, and with Welsh Slate at its very heart.
With architecture conceived by Hopkins Architects to gracefully harmonise with the heritage buildings of Belgravia, The Peninsula London also embodies a sleek, spacious aesthetic that floods its exquisite Peter Marino-designed interiors with natural light.
The world-class 190-room hotel, along with 25 opulent luxury residences, centres around an expansive entrance courtyard off Grosvenor Place, landscaped in the style of a classic English garden with hand-crafted granite paving, cascading ivy, wisteria vines and two 120-year-old Japanese maple trees.
It is here that Welsh Slate’s own heritage probably makes its most obvious mark, as the courtyard columns are faced with Cwt-y-Bugail cladding. This cladding also features as individual slabs measuring up to 2.2m long x 900mm high x 40mm thick on the facades of the two storeys of penthouse apartments which top the multiple storeys of Portland stone below. Welsh Slate also tops the menu in the upper-level restaurant terraces where Cwt-y-Bugail features on the waiters’ stations.
Cwt-y-Bugail Honed slate is a premium Welsh slate known for its natural beauty and durability. Its rich, dark grey colour, and smooth, Honed finish complements the timeless elegance of The Peninsula London perfectly.
The 40mm-thick slate used for the external cladding provides a stylish but robust and weather-resistant layer of protection, while the slate used for the internal cladding on the courtyard columns adds a touch of sophistication and refinement.
Hopkins Architects said: “Materials for this prestigious project were carefully selected, with the project team visiting quarries across the UK to select the very best. Welsh slate, used to form the piers on the top two storeys, was selected from a quarry near Anglesey, with individual slabs measuring up to 1.4m x 900mm high x 40mm thick.”
The 20mm-thick slate used for the waiter stations in the restaurant terraces is both durable and easy to clean, making it ideal for a high-traffic area.
Matthew Allen, production director at Tekne, who installed the waiters’ stations, said: “The Welsh Slate counter tops are a quality product, were very easy to install, and look absolutely fabulous. Being produced from a natural, hardwearing material will make them particularly low maintenance and resilient to the London atmosphere/environment.”
In addition to its aesthetic appeal, Cwt-y-Bugail Honed slate offers many practical benefits, being a low-maintenance material that is easy to clean and maintain. It is also resistant to fire, water and staining.
Hopkins Architects’ brief for The Peninsula London, was to create a hotel and residences of exceptional quality. Looking across three Royal Parks as well as the grounds of nearby Buckingham Palace, The Peninsula London faces Wellington Arch and surrounding public space.
The unique context and history of this site, formerly a 1960s office block, have been carefully explored and are reflected in the architectural design, detailing and a materials palette which is limited to the highest quality materials typical to the area.
