Llanelli has a huge stock of tinplate-era terraces, and those roofs share a set of very specific habits: long slate slopes, rear valley gutters between houses, and chimney stacks that were built for coal fires and never re-flashed.
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Llanelli sits on the Loughor estuary in Carmarthenshire, covering SA14 and SA15, and grew rapidly around the tinplate industry, which is where the town's nickname Tinopolis comes from.
The Millennium Coastal Path runs along the town's estuary frontage, and property along that edge, including Pwll and the Machynys side, is fully open to weather coming off the estuary.
Inland districts such as Felinfoel, Dafen, Llwynhendy and Bynea mix Victorian terraces with substantial inter-war and post-war housing, so roof ages vary street by street.
If the slates themselves are sound and only the nails have failed in patches, repair is realistic. If they are delaminating and slipping across the whole slope, re-covering is usually the more honest answer.
A shared stack is normally a shared responsibility, and the work is easiest and cheapest when both neighbours agree to have it done at once so the scaffold goes up only once.
Yes, including Felinfoel, Dafen, Llwynhendy, Bynea, Pwll, Llangennech and Trimsaran.
On Llanelli terraces, the useful thing is knowing whether the slate has failed or only the nails have. That decides everything else.