Roof tile shortage? Reclaimed tiles.

There are loads of places selling reclaimed tiles, although I expect they only pay a fraction of their selling price for new stock. Why not look your tiles up, and see what price they are being sold at, then take say 30-50% of that.

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, David snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com writes

Peg tiles have always fetched money.

I have a stack of Marley concrete roll tiles taking up space here. Sadly, not enough to cover more than a very large dog kennel.

I believe that they are Pan Tiles, from the 1930s, and mainly of French origin.

Cheers

Dave R

Yes, for a long time they were £0.50 to £1 per tile. I was just wondering if anyone had encountered local shortages which might push demand up.

Cheers

Dave R

Might be worth phoning a local reclamation yard and asking if they have them and what their buy and sell price on them are.

FWIW when I did a loft conversion at the last place, I had a load of spare tiles. So I spoke to a local place, and said I am not sure yet, but might need more, or might have too many... what are your buy and sell prices? (IIRC they bought them at some amount per 1000 and sold them at 50% or 100% more).

As luck would have it, someone a couple of houses away was adding an extension and needed tiles, so I flogged em to him and we split the reclamation yard's price, so we both walked away with a better deal!

Ta.

Will talk to the local roofers as well, as they will presumably need a stock to do repairs. The tiles seem common to a lot of properties around here.

Cheers

Dave R