Beautiful Buckhead | Midtown Slate & Tile Roofs

Buckhead and Midtown In Atlanta Georgia Has some of the most beautiful homes in all of Georgia! And what helps them look so beautiful is choice of roofing they use. Some have tile roofing, ranging from concrete to clay tiles. From flat to curved tiles like Spanish tile.

 The earliest finds of roof tiles in archaic Greece are documented from a very restricted area around Corinth (Greece), where fired tiles began to replace thatched roofs at two temples of Apollo and Poseidon between 700-650 BC. Spreading rapidly, roof tiles were within fifty years in evidence for a large number of sites around the Eastern Mediterranean, including Mainland Greece, Western Asia Minor, Southern and Central Italy. Early roof tiles showed an S-shape, with the pan and cover tile forming one piece. They were rather bulky affairs, weighing around 30 kg apiece. Being more expensive and labour-intensive to produce than thatch, their introduction has been explained by their greatly enhanced fire resistance which gave desired protection to the costly temples.

The other type off roofing that can be found on the beautiful homes in Buckhead And Midtown area of Atlanta are constructed of slate. Homes with slate roofing systems are beautiful. The slate roofing compliments the house. And the ones with the copper accents, such as copper valleys and copper ridge caps and gutters are even more beautiful.

Slate is produced on the east coast of Newfoundland, in Eastern Pennsylvania, Buckingham County, Virginia, and the Slate Valley of Vermont and New York, where colored slate is mined in the Granville, New York area.
That's where the different kinds of slate get there names such as Pennsylvania slate or Buckingham slate.

A major slating operation existed in Monson, Maine during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where the slate is usually dark purple to blackish, and many local structures are still roofed with slate tiles. The roof of St. Patrick's Cathedral was made of Monson slate, as is the headstone of John F. Kennedy.

When it comes to owning one of these beautiful homes in the Atlanta | Buckhead or Midtown areas that has a slate and tile roofing system It is important that they are maintained properly
 by hiring  the right roofing contractor.

When hiring a contractor to maintain or repair your roof you want them to have an extensive background in slate and tile roofing. Other wise you get repairs that look like this.