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Slate Roof Installations
Slate is one of the oldest roofing materials known to man. While it offers unrivaled beauty and appeal, it also provides some of the best value too. Slate can be combined in different size, color, pattern, and texture variations to achieve a seemingly limitless array of options. Regardless of these aesthetic attributes a slate roof will provide for what should be the roof investment for a lifetime. A slate roof will last for 100+ years when properly assembled and cared for. There are very few other products that can match the longevity of a slate roof, and none will be as “one of a kind.”
Thickness & Size of Roofing Slates
Different thicknesses and texture of slate will offer many different aesthetic possibilities.
Although some quarries will produce and stock a few standard sizes, most slate orders are made to order. Different sized slates, both height and width wise, can play a large roll in how a roof looks as well as the overall cost of the roof.
Patterns & Layouts
Although different layouts of roof may have functional value, it is the selection of a pattern that will marry a roof to the building on which it sets. Different architectural styles will call for different applications of slate. A Colonial or Plantation style building will best be complemented by slates all of a common width and a common height. A Georgian style building looks quite nice with a graduated roof. Victorian structures may have specially cut scalloped, beaver tailed, fish scaled, or diamond point slates inlaid in the field of regular courses of slate. Tudor style buildings might receive a cottage style treatment on its roof. Staggering the butts of slates can offer relief from an otherwise monotonous or regular roof. Sometimes accents such as flowers or dates are even created by using slates of a different color than the rest of the roof.
Slate Shapes
Some shapes include: Rectangle (Standard), Beveled, Arched, Scalloped & Tapered. These can be ordered in such way or cut on site.
Slate Roofing Colors
Color is the single most deliberated aspect of selecting a slate for a particular roof. The location from which the material is extracted from the ground will determine the color, and there is a great variety of color to choose from. Although slate comes from the many corners of the world, Century Slate usually recommends that slates from Canada, parts of Europe, and especially domestically produced slate be used. From these locations available varieties include: Buckingham Slate, Vermont Black Slate, Semi-Weathering Gray Slate, Semi-weathering Green Slate, Mottled Green & Purple Slate, Unfading Green Slate, Unfading Purple Slate, Royal Purple Slate, Strata Gray/Black Slate, Clear Black Slate, Unfading Black Slate, Unfading Red Slate, Spanish Black Slate.
Some of the Roofing Slates we commonly use
Buckingham roofing slate
Vermont Cupa 14
Vermont black gray
Vermont Charleston blend
Vermont Cupa 12
Vermont Cupa 7
Graduated thickness blend
Vermont heavy slate
Vermont historic blend
Vermont mottled purple
Vermont multi color blend
Vermont gray black blend
Vermont New York red
Semi weathering gray roofing slate
Vermont rocky gray
Semi weathering gray green
Vermont strata gray
Vermont variegated purple
Vermont unfading gray green
Vermont unfading grassy green
Vermont unfading slate
Semi weathering gray green
Non-weathering mottled green purple
Non-weathering gray green
Vermont strata gray slate
Non-weathering purple slate
Vermont gray black
Vermont wells gray slate
Greenstone Vermont clear gray
Unfading Spanish black slate
Evergreen variegated purple
Evergreen royal purple slate
Evergreen mottled gray black slate
Evergreen Vermont black
Evergreen unfading red
Evergreen unfading green
Unfading mottled green purple
Semi weathering gray green
Evergreen Canadian black
Semi weathering gray
Evergreen unfading gray
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We work with companies such as Vermont Slate Company, Buckingham Slate, Greenstone Slate, Evergreen Slate and Black Diamond Slate.
Our expertly trained slate roofers work in all of North Carolina and its neighboring states.
The Century Slate Co. specializes in new slate roofs as well as slate roofing repairs.
Our clients include private residences, universities, churches & government buildings.
We work with the best products for quality, high-end results. No job is too big or too small.
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