Boral Montery Shake

Hi, anybody here have experience installing this product? Have someone wanting a quote on it,have not used it before,looking for some insight. Thanks

Hi, The owner did some research, and found it will not be warranted in Canada, high snow load? It is a long bungalow home, 7/12, with shake on it now. Looking at Certainteed Presidential XL now. I would like him to go back with cedar on cross battens.

We installed a couple of the Cedarlite roofs years ago, when first introduced...Looks good, but very brittle....To be fair, though, we never had any call-backs.

I am surprised cedarlite is still around....They must be selling it somewhere.

U.S. Tile products have always performed well for us.

As mentioned above, I would rely heavily, on manufacture's specs. recomendations.

You're right Tom, it's a clay tile. It is their continuing qwest to make the Cedarlite investment payoff.

Most tile is made with a continuous conveyor of form plates going under a hopper to a roller that forms the profile. The cedarshake line, in order to form the surface shapes, requires a press to come down on each form plate individually. Plus there are three different surfaces so there are blending issues and other production complications.

With the history of both the product and the ownership changes, I would procede cautiously with this product. It could very easily be dropped with no notice.

It's a clay tile...Formerly U.S. Tile....Your best bet, is to contact Boral, for thermal-shock resistance, etc....With clay tile in particualar, the manufacturing process, along with make-up, are key to it's performance in any given local.

Ifn ya did I missed it. There is a supply of used here in lanta, wat quantity and size r ya lukin fer in case ya need a backup plan.

Max, I thjought I did. I can get new tiles from Ludowici, I am looking for used tiles. they are tearing off a roof in Kalamazoo next month and I am trying to get that tile to do the repairs for the broken tile in the next city over. I wanted used tiles anyway to better match what is on the existting roof. thanks.

That product is the same as the old M-L Cedarlite. I installed one roof of it and decided to never use it again. I'm not a fan of extremely fragile roofing direct-nailed to the deck. They pulled the product from our market for awhile and only had Madera (same product, but not liteweight). Now they offer Madera 700 as a litewieght product, which is 100 lbs per square heavier than what they offer in your market. I consider it a work-in-progress and avoid the product. If the regular weight version of the product is available in your market, use that, it should be cheaper and you can apply the savings to bracing up the framing.

It does offer the most realistic wood look of all tile styles, though.

It ia a interlocking concrete tile. Just installed Monier Slate Lifetile. If you have never done tile you might want to pass on this one. Old School you never responded about the s-tile.

No idea, Is it a imitation shake product? Most of them have been miserable failures!