Cement Roof Tiles

hiya and weclome to the forum - you will find people very helpful and knowledgeable!

TILES: It all depends on what style and condition, Cement tiles can get fairly brittle over the years I believe, so may not remove easily. What suburb are you in, as I am in touch with most demolition yards and may be able to advise

Also, what age is you home and do you have any pics for us to look at?

Finally, are you matching roof pitches etc on your garage and what type of door are you going to use?

Have fun!

Seriph is correct, the tiles you want may not be in great condition and would look pretty ordinary, as cement tiles do after a number of years. If you have to match them, have you considered taking some off the roof at the rear of the house and using those on the garage. If you then replace the rear ones with tiles which don't match, it won't be very obvious.

Other than that, a whole roof tile restoration job once the garage is done would look good.

Some 20 years ago during a renovation I found trying to match cement tiles was uneconomical, - wound up replacing the whole lot with terracotta -cheaper and on a period (1929) home looked the goods,

FWIW

Jamie

I just replaced the cement tiles on our roof, with iron. It's along story, but eventually it turned out that the cement tiles were a) very brittle and the roof was almost impossible to walk on b) made over 50 years ago by a company which no longer exists c) soaked up water like a sponge which doubled the weight in the roof everytime it rained for an extended period d)did not seem to have the same profile as existing terracotta tiles e) were next to impossible to retrieve for stockpiling (I tried and gave up after about 50 in a row just cracked).

I'm biased, but I would scrap the tiles both on the house and shed and run with a tin roof - but that is one opinion, and tin definitely doesn't suit a myriad of period homes.

Best of Luck

bloody ripper!

have fun!

you should definitely have a go at it yourself - the cost is a fraction of what the roof restoration companies charge -the brittleness of the tiles is a fair concern - falling througha roof or spending your days looking for replacements is a pain......it's just a case of checking and then knowing where/how to stand on a roof....... Finally, I believe repointing is a technique best learned on the ground

Ringwood - Yup, as mentioned there are a lot of places in Melbourne that remove and resell tiles - they even pay for them at times, so this offsets the cost of replacement with other materials.

bloody hell - what a killer spot!

where are you? Pic looks like it could be Macedon or in the Dandies - either way, very nice strretscape

ifthe pics are too large, just email them to me at steve_is@graphic-designer.com and I will resize and post them for you

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small world indeed though I do three things for a living (mum always told me a moving trget was harder to hit)

1. Business Coach
2. Graphics
3. Architectural Consultant, specialising in period homes

from the pic, your place looks the perfect base for creating a farmhouse style home - BTW the moire is pretty bad in the pic ..... they site will allow up to 100k pics, so use as much space as you need - it can accept multiple pics in a single post - go to the screen and just keep adding images using (i think) the browse button, but if you wanna avoid hassles, just post each pic individually.

..... and btw you guys have saved my bacon more than once ......

you know what I'm talking about