some of my desert home pics test

Great looking scuppers, egg. Ohagin'a are great. Those look like like 20" 2 piece mission style, With an Old Sedona or Old World paint job, nicely done! Shouldn't really matter if their installed correctly but they are a 3/4' of an inch short of covering the vent screen and hole directly below them. I talked with them many times about this and they won't budge. They put nothing into R&D and I don't believe they can get an ICBO number. Biggest problem we've had is after we dry-in and we cover the screen with vent, the vent doesn't cover and rain penetrates. we,ve set tile pans under the sides, which is a temporary help.

O'Hagin cloaked vents. Etched, primed, painted, and given a slurry coat. Had a heck of a time not stepping on them later.

Simplest fitted terminations:

These days I'd have to say I'm jealous of anyone who has seven cap and pan tile jobs on the books. Best work there is.

two-piece mission...prettiest tile there is, prettiest tile there ever was.

First saw the foam patty installation here on the forum a few years ago... Florida wind conditions made it almost mandatory. I wouldn't want it on my own roof though. I want vertical straps and wired tiles. Wind clips if absolutely necessary. All flashings at tile plane field-formed and soldered to fit. I hate big, ugly lead jacks. O'Hagin had the right idea and it just has to be extended. jmho. One of the best things I ever did was buy a big wet-saw, big enough to cut concrete block. I mill everything beforehand, re-crate it and load it with the field tiles. Love it to death. More expensive though. We have clowns out here that are pushing Ice & water with millions of penetrations.

At the height of construction I had over 200 builders building 330 sq ft room additions to 30,0000sqft mansions now Im down to 40-50 Now of course they're not all going on at the same time and they are in different stages. Arizona got hit as hard as Vegas, but not everything, has stopped totally. And when thing slow down like they have people and businesses clear out. A good roofer doesnt have to worry as much as Chuck in the Truck, no matter what his price is, Chuck or the good roofer. we have probaly lost 200 licensed roofing contractors in the past six mths alone. Do a good job and the people will call you. Keep your margins and you'll be there to be called. I have 7- 200+ square 2-piece tile jobs on the books now that we haven't dried in yet.

Thanks for sharing this stuff. :)

Ciak, we'll go 100 days with out a trace of rain then get a 1/4" and then another 60 days until we get more. It makes for very dull phone days. We are already 1-3/4" behind schedule and we only get 7" a year.

Wywoody, those pics are from late 2009 into early 2010. I have 3 or 4 in progress now, every bit that size. Because of the different trades, it take 8-10 months from dry-in to final to complete. we probably start 1 sometimes 2 a month. I'll send some pics of work in progress.

My sister just bought a new home in Tuscon. I was out there for a few months. No rain, however plenty of dust flying around. It was amazing to me roofers would leave roofs open for weeks with no dry-in just plywood. Nice home and very nice tile work. B) :) :) B) Deep Down In Florida Where The Sun Shines Damn Near Every Day

I'll keep that in mind, OS, but it's a long way to come for gutters. Must be some expensive gutters. :laugh:

Oh, and the copper "D" gutters, they were fun too.

Didn't mean to mislead you, that wasn't my home just one I sold and installed. I live in the desert and they all become MY home The Lady owns a company called "Stamp It", out of Utah. She has frachises across the nation. A little info on the roof: The dryin was a 3 ply torch down, base, smooth and a cap.Dry extended up all walls minmum 12" All base jacks were copper with the torch, lead flashings with the tile and then capped with clay stacks. All valleys were laced with the 3ply torh and then 20oz triple valley metal. All head wall and side wall flashings were 20oz. and the edge metal was 16oz. the side wall were 10' long, 8" high 10" wide and a 1"lip. We had to make the pan 10' so the stone walls would fit. The mason's set a 1/4' angle, 6" high and then cut a groove in asll the rock to fit into the angle iron to support the weight of the above rock. all flashing was countered with 12"Sap to reduce electrolosis. The copper was left natural to age as a "dirty penny". The tile was bought directly by the owner who had it shipped in from Italy on a freighter, rail and then truck. Before we installed the tile the HO inspected the dry-in for no nail exposure. They required no nails in the tile and requested a foam set. Polyglas put a lifetime warranty on the roofing system as it was their torch and they supplied the foam. All the pans were set in 8" foam patty, all the tops were laced on both sides with a bead of foam and set in place. We applied mortar to every top and fully mudded both sides of all hip and ridge beams as well as mudded bird stop. we also added bumps and stacks in the field to give it that 200 year old look. That was real rock they used and I agree, something else to breakup the monotomy. Shutters or something.....

Awesome photos of the tile roofing!

JEEZELFREEK, that's a different world than I live in.

Neat pix. :) That first house has room for all 20 kids and their offspring. I believe I could even hide a few girlfriends somewhere in there too. :)

These are a few other projcts Slate Wood shake,Yea, we can grow grass in the desert

We installed this roof with foam patties, no nails allowed

His driveway was over a mile long