Roman Villa Roof Tiles

These roofing tiles are perfect for tile roof repair and restoration.

Roman villa roof tiles.

Concrete clay roof tiles. These are high arched tiles that decra calls villa tiles and gerard calls spanish tile or roman tile top brands of stone coated steel tiles. Roman roof tiles construction fly around the villa let s go inside hypocaust and mosaic in room 8 hexagonal roof tiles construction roman tiles are a system of flat tiles laid adjacent to each other the side joints being covered with a tapered half cylinder. These are low arch tiles mimic clay tiles.

The villa building would have been covered with a tiled roof. An example of this is the clay made beaver tail tile german biberschwanz common in southern germany flat roof tiles are usually made of clay but also may be made of stone wood plastic concrete or solar cells. A second type of tile called an imbrex was used to cover and overlap the joints. An average clay tile roof costs between 675 to 1400 per square 100 sf of roof area.

Many roman villas had an underfloor heating system called a hypocaust. A large number of shapes or profiles of roof tiles have evolved. These were made in a kiln found next to the villa which produced two types of roof tiles. Custom made concrete tiles also available.

Decra calls them mediterranean style and gerard compares them to old world roofing clay tiles. The imbrex and tegula plurals imbrices and tegulae were overlapping roof tiles used in ancient greek and roman architecture as a waterproof and durable roof covering they were made predominantly of fired clay but also sometimes of marble bronze or gilt in rome they replaced wooden shingles and were used on almost every type of structure from humble outbuildings to grand temples and. Flat tiles the simplest type which are laid in regular overlapping rows. We custom manufacture roofing tiles to replace those obsolete roof tiles.

Cedar shakes shingles. This is offset though by the long life a tile roof will enjoy. Tegulae tiles fitted together in rows to create the roof surface. A clay tile roof system can cost two to three times as much as an asphalt roofing system.

Discontinued roofing tiles salvaged clay and concrete roof tiles available. Tegula a flat tile with upstanding edges and imbrex a curved tile.