Slate its beauty and strength is unmatched to any other material. The first recorded use of slate on a residential home was around the 1300s. With a life span of 150 to 250 years, proper upkeep and installation of a slate roof it can have it lasting centuries to come. Art of slate roofing has been preserved for thousands of years on churches and great halls around the world. History is made with every new slate roof installed as that roof will be there for your family generations to see.