Slate Roof Patterns

For layout reasons these patterns are most frequently incorporated into standard slate roofs.

Slate roof patterns. 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. Old roofs of slate or wood were typically constructed of individual rectangular pieces offset and overlapped to shed water. There are indeed many choices in selecting slate roofing patterns so find the one with the best aesthetic potential. 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.

The unfading green slate produced in vermont is a blend of green gray tones. For technical information on slate roof pattern designs please call our office at toll free. Occasionally for added ornamentation roofers would insert a few parallel courses of scalloped or beveled tiles into a roof of predominantly rectangular slate tiles. Unlike most roofing materials slate gives designers the capability to exercise their creativity.

By varying the size shape color and even the pattern of how each tile is positioned allows for a wide range of profiles and designs.