Roof Reclamation and Salvage
Good slate and tile are worth saving. We salvage, sort and reset original material instead of throwing it in a dumpster.
- Slate and tile salvaged and sorted by hand
- Reclaimed material matched to your roof
- Reuse the sound slate, replace only the broken
- Cheaper than all-new on the right house
Reclamation means saving a roof that still has good material in it. On slate, tile and cedar, a full tear-off is often the most expensive answer and not the right one.
Signs you may need this
- Slate or tile pieces cracked, slipped or missing in spots
- Cedar shakes curling or splitting in one area
- Rusted or failed flashing on an otherwise sound roof
- Somebody told you the whole roof has to come off
- An older home where the roof material matters to the look
How the visit goes
1. Judge the material, not just the age
Slate and tile can outlive several shingle roofs. The question is whether the pieces are sound, not how old they are.
2. Check the flashing and the valleys
On old roofs, the metal usually fails long before the slate or tile does. Replacing metal can buy many years.
3. Count what has to be replaced
Cracked and slipped pieces get counted and matched. Salvaged and new material both get considered.
4. Give you both answers
What restoration would cover and what replacement would cover, so you can compare instead of being told there is only one option.
What changes the price
We do not post prices, because a roof nobody has looked at cannot be priced. These are the things that make the job bigger or smaller.
- • How many pieces are broken or missing
- • How hard your material is to match
- • Amount of flashing, valley and ridge metal to replace
- • Wood or batten condition underneath
- • Access, height and how careful the work has to be
Questions homeowners ask
- Is restoration cheaper than replacing?
- Often, on slate and tile. Not always. The honest answer comes after somebody counts the damage, and you get both numbers.
- Can broken slate be matched?
- Sometimes with salvaged pieces, sometimes with new. Color and thickness are never a perfect match, and the roofer will show you samples.
- Someone told me my slate roof is shot. Is it?
- Maybe, and maybe the flashing is shot and the slate is fine. Those are very different jobs and very different prices.
- Do you take on historic homes?
- Specialty material work is handled by partner roofers who do that kind of roof. If your job is not a fit, you will be told instead of sold.
Straight talk: We do not name historic homes we have worked on. Any project shown as ours has to be confirmed with real photos first.