In the Colonial years, when handmade brick was scarce, the availability of native clay also afforded Valley pioneers to build attractive brick chimneys with courses of brick corbelling. The result: ...

Twenty-six-year old Abraham B. Klay arrived in the United States with the skill to make roofing tiles and a head full of ideas about how to make them better. The happy confluence of Klay’s ...

I constructed a tiled roof shelter with hand-made clay tiles. Each tile was shaped and fired to create a water-resistant roof ...

The handcrafted clay roof tiles may have been a ubiquitous feature in small towns and villages a few decades ago. Yet, a walk through one of them now will see a near absence of their presence, the ...

One of the most ubiquitous architectural elements around the world is the clay roof tile. Clay tiles have a history dating back to the Neolithic Age. They were first used as roofing in China and then ...

Sandtoft has introduced the Rivius clay roof tile, which is manufactured to look like traditional slate. The company claims the new generation of clay products can offer the same colour and riven ...

Batches of faulty imported roof tiles could crack in winter weather, threatening upmarket housing developments. There is particular concern over clay tiles from Turkey that have come in over the past ...

Clay roofing tile manufacturers say their business has been affected due increasing production cost, shortage of raw material as well as increasing expenditures on excavation permits and ...

Roofing tiles have been around for decades. Yet, even with all the new innovative roofing solutions, they are still preferred. Good products and trends come and disappear over time due to constant ...