Need some old roof tiles

paluiz

Hi - I need about 30 tiles to repair a roof. The roof dates from the early 1960s. There are a lot of similar roofs around here so I'd guess there must be some spare tiles somewhere. My local building supplies yard thought the tile might be a Roadstone Centurion but, although they are similar, I don't think they're quite the same: the centurion looks flatter in the middle whereas the ones I'm after have more of a continuous curve to them.

I'm in Kerry, could collect from pretty much anywhere in Kerry or Cork.

The tiles are 385x225 as accurately as I can measure them. For comparison, the stated size of the Centurions is 385x230, but the shorter measurement is across the curve so more difficult.

Here's a top and bottom picture of the tile, plus a bit of roof to show how they look in place:

Edit: the images don't seem to work so here are the links:

http://s1317.photobucket.com/user/yachtchal/media/tile1_zpsh9be6wpg.jpg.html
http://s1317.photobucket.com/user/yachtchal/media/tile2_zps3xsh62tn.jpg.html
http://http://s1317.photobucket.com/user/yachtchal/media/roof_zpsygz3mwwh.jpg.html


Many thanks.

tabby aspreme

Which company made them, it should be imprinted on the back of the tile

Bigus

Blue Bangor slate company in inchicore Dublin stock old salvage tiles

paluiz

Which company made them, it should be imprinted on the back of the tile

Thanks for suggestion, but no sign of any name. I've got two tiles off and neither has anything on them. The house was originally built by Kerry County Council, I think they built a lot of very similar houses around that time, don't know if they would have used the same supplier.

Blue Bangor slate company in inchicore Dublin stock old salvage tiles

Thanks for the info, will try them if I can't get anything more local.

iano.p

I say they are a marley tile they have a few styles I can't think of its name off hand. (Try Google) I take I have a few in the yard i would have to look if you are around carlow.

jack of all

iano.p wrote: »

I say they are a marley tile they have a few styles I can't think of its name off hand. (Try Google) I take I have a few in the yard i would have to look if you are around carlow.

I thought Marley too, did a job for a an extension years ago where we were able to source new Marley to match existing from "Hammond" in Monkstown, if I recall correctly. More info on that type of tile here:

http://www.killoranslate.ie/old-roof-tiles/old-marley-roof-tiles/

If using reclaimed tiles be very careful- I know of a couple of jobs where reclaimed concrete tiles were used on new extensions but there were problems with water ingress after- the old tiles had become porous as much of the original surface and colour was gone (age and heavy moss cover which was probably removed by overly aggressive powerwashing). Thesurface of the tiles was visibly eroded, the roofs had to be stripped in the end. Good visual inspection is a must and be prepared to discard a certain percentage.

paluiz

iano.p and jack_of_all - thank you both for the info, most helpful. I've had a look at the Killoran Slate website and the tiles do indeed look very like one of the Marley tiles they show, so at least I know what I'm looking for. Pity Killoran have closed as Nenagh not too bad to get to from where I am, but looks like it will have to be Dublin. (Thanks for offer re Carlow iano.p but that's a very long way and not somewhere I'd be likely to be passing any time soon.)

Cheers!