Slate Roof Patterns

Occasionally for added ornamentation roofers would insert a few parallel courses of scalloped or beveled tiles into a roof of predominantly rectangular slate tiles.

Slate roof patterns.

There are indeed many choices in selecting slate roofing patterns so find the one with the best aesthetic potential. One of the unique characteristics of slate roofs is that slates can be used of different colors to create unique patterns thereby creating landmark roofs. Slate laid in multicolored decorative patterns was particularly well suited to the mansard roofs of the second empire style the steeply pitch roofs of the gothic revival and high victorian gothic styles and the many prominent roof planes and turrets associated with the queen anne style. Unlike most roofing materials slate gives designers the capability to exercise their creativity.

Old roofs of slate or wood were typically constructed of individual rectangular pieces offset and overlapped to shed water. The above set of roofs were installed by brent ulisky and orion jenkins formerly of joseph jenkins inc. The unfading green slate produced in vermont is a blend of green gray tones. Patterned slate roofs by introducing slates of different colors or shapes in a specific design or in courses individual accents or banding can be created as part of the design characteristic of a slate roof.

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