With slate roofs, you can create a spectacular roof-scape that everyone will be mesmerised by. Slate roofs offer shelter, shed snow and rain, resist wind, and benefit you in several other ways. But they can also make your house appear stunning!
With the help of a good roofing contractor and design professional, you can give your roof an impressive look. Check out some exciting slate roof designs that you can implement later.
- Patterned Slate Roofs – By introducing various coloured or shaped slates in a particular design or courses, you can create banding or individual accents as part of your slate roof design. For layout purposes, these patterns are most often implemented into standard slate roofs. Accents may include, geometric and floral patterns, names, words, or dates. Houses with patterned slate roofs look incredible, to say the least.
- Multi-coloured Slate Roofs – With a variety of available colours, it is common to mix different colours to form a multi-coloured slate roof. Although it is possible for a uniform size slate roof, you can conveniently achieve this design using a random width installation. The best thing about this being, you can use any number of colours.
- Graduated Length Slate Roofs – It is an old practice to install slates of different lengths and widths. To achieve this design, a contractor first sorts the on-site slate and installs the longest and widest slates at the eaves. Then the remaining ones are installed into the roof in courses, in a way that the narrowest and shortest slates stay at the top, where they carry the least water.
Such well-laid-out slate roofs would show no visible break between the different slate lengths used, as they move up the roof.
- Textural Slate Roofs – Slates of rougher surface textures when mixed throughout a roof, form the textual slate roof. The installation method leaves the slates of different thicknesses lying adjacent to each other. This creates a rougher hewn appearance, and your roof looks awesome! This is an extremely popular and commonly seen slate roof design.
As the slates are thicker and rougher, the textural slate butt corners randomly miss acceptable dimensions. You need a genius slate roofing contractor to get this done.
- Graduated Thickness Slate Roofs – Here, slates of 3, 4, or more successive thicknesses are implemented into graduated length roofs, with the thickest and largest slates at the eaves. Then, the slates are laid with decreasing thicknesses and lengths until the thinnest and smallest one is at the top. The eave’s slates maybe 1 inch thick, or more. The top of the slope can have 3/16 inch thick slates.
- Hang-Down Slate Roofs – This is another interesting usage of slate roofs. Longer slates with their heads laid to a higher or the same course line, and another length projecting past the butt line of other slates gives a hang down appearance.
These are 6 globally loved slate roof designs. Install any one of them on your roof, and you will have a beautified roof to boast of! Contact us today to learn more.
