Looks like slate roof, feels like rubber
bridgetonjim
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Hello,
I was looking for anyone who has used Welsh Mountain Slate for roofing? I’m about to under take doing my roof and like the samples they sent me, but it is made from recycled tires and I wanted to see what kind of results anybody has had with this product. Its a bit pricier too. Any insight would greatly be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Jim
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Willy,
I liv in south jersey. The product says its good for 50+ years. and is around $1.50 per tile. Have you used this? if so let me know what u think.
Jim
I'm not sure that this is the same product, but I've seen two other roofs underperform. One was Eternit, on the library. The others something different. I'm waiting for somone to prove it to me with at least a ten year old roof before I install fake slate anywhere.
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The washington-centerville public library here in Ohio replaced it's entire roof on the new library after about 4 years of problems. I think it was fake slate, but it might have been real. It's now copper. They are pretty quiet about the deal, but it involved a lawsuit. Heard it was very expensive.
Jim
I installed Crowe Authentic Roof slates on my home addition 2 years ago. Yours sounds like almost the same thing. Mine cost $1.56 in Philly suburbs.
They are very easy to cut and install, although it is time consuming as each shingle is only 12" x 18".
Because they will expand and contract spacing is important. I don't know if that's the problem in some of the photos. I have seen no signs of curling through 2 winters and summers.
One thing you will need is some snow guards (mine have only been installed on the upper roof in the photo) as these shingles shed snow in one fell swoop. Valuable shrubbery or family members can be damaged as a result.
Hope this helps
Is Crowe still in business? I liked the look of their product (the Welsh Mountain stuff looks similar), but my distributor was nervous about Crowe and wouldn't carry them. They never really explained why. The customer ended up choosing Grand Manors, so I never pursued it any further. I just happened to think that I haven't seen the Crowe product advertised recently.
Green (is Crowe still in business?)
Don't scare me like that! Anyway I'm not worried cause I have a 50 year warranty.
Seriously, the distributor and I had some problems with Crowe. Delivery was about 6 weeks late. The slates (which are molded from real slate) come in 5-6 different patterns, but my shipment contained only 2. I wasn't ready to wait another God knows how long for replacements. From some angles, if you know what to look for, you can see a repetition of pattern.
Regardless of these problems I am very happy with the results. Again, my experience has been the way they go down is the way they stay.
If you are looking for the real slate look the options are slim: these unproven plastic imitations, or the real thing$$$. The composition shingles look OK from the other side of the river, but up close on a low roof like mine it just wouldn't work.
Time will tell whether or not I made the right decision and if it matters if Crowe is still out there or not.
C.
We trimmed out a house a couple of years ago that has that very same roof system on it, for a 5mil. dollar house I would have expected better, don't have any pics but if I did they would look exactly like the ones Pif posted. They don't lay as flat as true slate and that makes them a dead giveaway that they aren't. Don't have any idea about the longevity of the product but I didn't care for the look. JMHO
Doug
I think I'd rather have the Celotex or GAF composition slate look, myself.
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius