Traditional Slate Roof Tiles

Traditional clay roof tiles is a family company which has continued the 19th century tradition of producing high quality handmade clay roof tiles.

Traditional slate roof tiles. Special sizes such as slate and a half can be ordered to reach into valleys gable ends hips and dormers. Majestic slate the traditional beauty of slate with the durability and proven protection of a synthetic. Cedar shakes shingles. Second only to wood as a natural traditional roofing material slate is a fine grained sedimentary rock that has topped castles and large buildings for centuries in europe.

Our factory was established in 1989 and a hoffmann kiln reinstalled and put into service at that time. Imported from wales to colonial america for fire proof roofs in boston philadelphia and new york it was still slow to catch on for houses. Hard slate is the strongest type of slate and more durable than soft slate. Here you can find instructions for installing a slate roof repairing and restoring slate roofs and repairing asbestos roofs and ceramic tile roofs.

The starter course slate is the only slate on the roof that is supposed to be installed with the face down and the back up see photo below. Traditional slate roofing is a slate roofing company based in cleveland ohio. Slate roofing tiles are made from metamorphic rock. It is a beautiful natural material that has been used as a building material for centuries.

Hard slate and soft slate. The slate coverage per m2 can be found from table 2. Slate roof tiles are rectangle in shape but can be trimmed into special shapes such as clipped corners diamond fish scale and hexagon. Concrete clay roof tiles.

Slate roof tiles can range in size from 12 length x 6 wide up to 24 length x 12 wide. The total weight of slates on a roof can be calculated as follows. Example slate type del carmen slate size mm mm 400 250 weight of slates kg 1000 1235 exposure moderate roof pitch 40 roof area m 2 150 length of roof slope m 9 5 the headlap can be found from table 1 by reference to slate size roof pitch and exposure 65 mm. Slate roofing tiles come in two options.

With over 10 years of experience in roofing and custom copper work tsr offers the best solutions for all kinds of roofing related problems. An affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to natural slate ecostar s majestic slate captures the traditional beauty of slate roof tiles while providing the durability and proven protection of a synthetic.