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You're thinking of doing a loft conversion in the future?
A while ago I thought I had a choice: loft or kitchen. I don't need the loft, and the kitchen turned out to be a fire risk due to bad electrics and boiler... so kitchen won and now I've no intent to do loft ever.
The roof though, needs impending work in the "large job but temporary" nature or "full re-tiling"... I don't have funds to do a conversion so can't consider it... and once the roof is done it's going to be off the table for good as there will be no funds.
Some battens are already broken, hence this not being a minor patch up.
And I'm mortgaged too high to obtain a second mortgage to cover works... so ho hum. A roof will go on credit card, which I can just about manage.
Velocio
You're thinking of doing a loft conversion in the future?
All or most of the roof will probably come off anyway during a conversion so it's a good time to replace it. If you're likely to do it soonish, I probably wouldn't replace the whole roof now only to take it off again then.
Obviously this depends on the correct value of "soonish" and whether the battens etc. are likely to survive that long with just patch repairs on top.