I am renovating home in Ohio where clay tile roofs are not common. Home was built late 1800’s to early 1900’s. The roof tiles are the standard clay tile color (pottery vase), but are flat with two drainage grooves per tile (corrugated appearance). Tiles are 7.5 inches wide and with 13 inches of exposed face installed and approximately 1.25 inches thick.
Roof is in great condition but other renovation processes may damabe tiles. Home is all stone with crown stone gutter system. Stone arches and carved acorns adorn porch. Needless to say, home needs the appearance of this roof preserved if possible.
Any information would be beneficial. Repairable? Still available (ha!ha!)?
Thanks in advance,
Rich
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You are in ln luck , one of the oldest and best known tile roof companies is located in Ohio.
http://www.ludowici.com/about_us.cfm
Browse their website and see if they may not be able to help you out.
Here is another site to look at.
http://www.claytile.com/
Edited 1/24/2007 10:41 pm ET by dovetail97128
Thanks a million,
Contractor and material only 1 hr away if needed. Awesome web site and beautiful pictures.
Thanks again!!
Your welcome, happy it worked out. What area in Ohio BTW. I grew up just west of Cleve.
And check this company out
http://www.claytileroof.com/
You'll have to determine what type of tile you have and you should be able to find it at a salvage yard. Ludowici just sells to distributors. Durable Slate (they have several locations in OH) may have what you need as well.
http://logancustomcopper.com
http://grantlogan.net/
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Another one to try is tileroofs.com
where in ohio?
I have 2 and possibly 3 places in and around cleveland that will probably have what you need-( tile and slate salvaged from other buildings)
post a picture if possible,
stephen
Is this like what you have? This one does not have nail holes apparently, but the ones I used did--they were also glazed green.
Ludowici T1 French Tile
View Image This is an uncommon interlocking Ludowici tile (16.25" x 9") with a Smooth (some flaking), Red/Orange surface that was manufactured to lay on batton and counter battons. There are no nail holes in this tile. It is relatively difficult to locate and no longer a current production tile.
Quantity: 30 squares
I googled Ludowici and french. You can check the back of a tile for a manufacturer's stamp. If it is Ludowici it will say so. The new tiles Ludowici makes as standard are slightly smaller, so if you only need a few, try and find salvaged tiles. And if the tiles are not expensive enough, be extra careful with the ridge tiles or terminations.
Generally, all of the tiles can be numbered, removed, and put back in place if you need to do any roof work. Save the copper nails too because they are apparently thicker than what is available today.
We went through a major roof repair involving the removal of about half of our roof, and it was expensive, but if you are doing significant interior work, you might want to consider redoing the roof. In our case, although the tiles were in great shape, the underlayment started leaking around the valleys, so we replaced all of the underlayment with I&W Shield and 30# felt, and replaced the valleys with new copper.
Good luck,
Aaron
Thanks to all the responses! The tile you show in the picture is nearly identical, but the size is slightly different and center channel has no profiling as shown. However, based on the response and your picture, I believe this just may be possible.
Thanks to ALL!!!!!