Roman Villa 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 villa roof tiles.

Hundreds of fragments of roof tiles were found during the two excavations. Decra calls them mediterranean style and gerard compares them to old world roofing clay tiles. Cedar shakes shingles. Concrete tile roofs are more economical with costs of 400 to 450 per square.

These were made in a kiln found next to the villa which produced two types of roof tiles. We custom manufacture roofing tiles to replace those obsolete roof 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. These roofing tiles are perfect for tile roof repair and restoration.

The villa building would have been covered with a tiled roof. 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. Discontinued roofing tiles salvaged clay and concrete roof tiles available. Concrete clay roof tiles.

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. This is offset though by the long life a tile roof will enjoy. Flat tiles the simplest type which are laid in regular overlapping rows. These are low arch tiles mimic clay tiles.

Many roman villas had an underfloor heating system called a hypocaust. Tegula a flat tile with upstanding edges and imbrex a curved tile. Custom made concrete tiles also available. Tegulae tiles fitted together in rows to create the roof surface.

A second type of tile called an imbrex was used to cover and overlap the joints. A large number of shapes or profiles of roof tiles have evolved.