Concrete Roof Tile Showrooms

Concrete Roof Tiles provide the home builder with the best architectural look, the thickest textures, the longest lasting affordable roof system, and the best effective value money can buy.

The choices in profile range from the popular West Coast look of cedar shakes with "Shake", Homestead, Slate, and Split Shake", to the Southwest character of Spanish Tiles with "Espana", and the Mediterranean and Hawaiian influence of "Villa", Roma, and "Classic 100" tiles.

MonierLifetile is owned by Lafarge and Boral, two of the largest concrete product manufacturers in the world. MonierLifetile is the largest roof tile manufacturer in North America with many manufacturing facilities located from the East coast to the West coast. If you're looking at a concrete tiled roof in Vancouver, on Westwood Plateau, in Parksville, Kelowna, Seattle, Las Vegas, Scottsdale, Boca Ratan, or Laguna Beach, odds are you're probably looking at a MonierLifetile product.

Eagle Roofing is well known for their wonderful colour blends, especially in Capistrano spanish villa style tiles. Owned by Burlingame Industries this aggressive high quality concrete roof tile manufacturer is around for the long run with warranties backed up by a large strong company. Eagle Roofing is MonierLifetile's biggest competitor, and is certainly a leader in innovative colour blends and styles.

Check out the amazing selection at Eagle Roofing's website. In particular see the specialty blends such as Camino Real and CityScapes. These tiles are available for us from Stockton California, and usually take around 3 weeks to produce your order. As the tiles come from California the freight factor adds about $0.75 to $1.25 per square foot onto Tacoma Produced roof tiles. This is a very small price to invest in high quality tiles that will accentuate and adorn your project for decades to come.

Colour through concrete tile roofs, which is now how all leading tile manufacturers produce concrete roof tile,  have proven their longevity in the similar European climate, and have proven to last in excess of 70 years. Knowing this, MonierLifetile now offers a "lifetime" warranty on all their concrete roof tiles. They used to offer a 50 year warranty, but have increased their coverage to warrant their tiles performance based on the life of the structure. This in an un-equaled back up protection showing the confidence that MonierLifetile and Lafarge have in their products.

Eagle Roofing backs up their roof tiles with a 50 year warranty, which for all intents and purposes means the same as a lifetime warranty.

 Of course... the roof tiles will have to be installed with good detailing, flashings, underlayments, and assembled with good roofing practice or the roof system will likely have problems inside of 10 years or less(regardless of brand).

For less cost than a typical cedar shake installation in Southwest B.C., you can have the pleasure of adding concrete tile to your new home. A minor structural upgrade, normally in the trusses, is all it takes to have your home ready for tiles. Usually costing about $4000 for the average new home change to its framing, this upgrade still has the budget at less than installed cedar shakes.

And for re-roofing, there is now mid-weight tile available which can be installed on any home which was designed to support cedar shakes.

Weighing in at about 7 pounds per square foot, Madera is a mid-weight tile that "may" be used for changing old cedar shakes while re-roofing to a more up to date and permanent roof system. This eliminates the need for engineering upgrades on most installations for re-roofing and remodeling. Get your roofer's opinion as whether your home can support mid-weight concrete roof tiles, or if you should get an engineer's opinion. This usability will be dependent on snow load factors in your region.

Eagle Roofing and MonierLifetile have North America's best selection of colours, profiles, and classic styles to complement and add value to any design. One of these two manufacturers best advantages is that they have the least fading and best colour characteristics in the business.

But aesthetics aside, Eagle Roofing Concrete Roof Tiles and MonierLifetile's durable tiles resist fire, rain, and the extremes of weather better than most other roofing materials.

Real clay roof tiles are considered the ultimate choice for this genre of roofing style. If the real clay tile is made using grade one clay, and is rated to withstand colder region climates and weather extremes, then it is about the best roofing material one can use in this class. It will fade less than concrete, it will absorb less water and will then be less prone to algae growth, and surface degradation. In the Southwest BC region, we have observed that real clay (if it was good grade one variety) looks better after 15 or twenty years of in field performance than concrete roof tiles.

Real clay will cost more, both for materials as well as for installation, but if you are looking for a long term durable solution, a well installed grade one clay tile roof will be a great investment.

Both concrete as well as clay tile roofs are not meant to be walked upon much, so please stay off these roof systems. They are designed to withstand weather issues, not foot traffic.

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