Design Ideas

Surveys in this country have shown that people like houses built from traditional materials and a plain clay tile provides the means of adding individuality into houses with a durable, maintenance free product, the mellow appearance of which will become more attractive with time. This characteristic is not found in synthetic products.

The use of a plain clay tile roof enables an architect to incorporate prestige, character and individuality into a building, by means of the use of details that other large roofing units do not allow.  For example, hips, valleys, dormers, towers or vertical cladding. 

Roofs with mixed colour  tiles, create added interest especially on large expanses of roof where the colours and shadows generate a unique character.  No other tile blends like a Dreadnought, their subtle natural shades will give your roof an enduring quality.

Dreadnought beliefs have never altered.  For 200 years Dreadnought have believed in the enhanced beauty imparted to a building by the natural colours of clay and denied that these colours can be achieved by artifical sprays or stains.

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