Grey and slate-effect tile re-roofs

Grey has become the most requested colour for re-roofs on post-war houses, because it lifts a tired brick elevation and sits well with grey windows and doors. These photographs show a chalet bungalow re-covered in a large-format grey interlocking tile, with the dormer cheeks clad to match, a hipped bungalow finished in a slate-effect tile that gives the look of natural slate on a pitch that is too shallow for the real thing, and grey tiles being laid up to a chimney with the lead soakers going in course by course.

On all three the job underneath was the same: strip, timber check, breathable membrane, new battens, tiles fixed to the schedule, new lead, new ridge and hip.

Photos from the job

Finished new roof in grey interlocking tiles on a chalet bungalow, scaffold still up Grey interlocking tiles being laid up to a chimney stack Dark slate-effect hipped roof completed on a bungalow Finished grey tiled roof with ridge and chimney

Services on this job

• New roofs
• Tiled roofs
• Slate roofs