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Downtown Ventura street with palms and a Spanish style building

Every photograph on Mission Clay Roofing is a real, openly licensed photo found through Openverse or Wikimedia Commons. None of them shows work by this site or by any particular roofing company. They illustrate tile roofs, the kind of homes that carry them, and what common repairs look like. Captions say where a photo was taken when the source says so.

Page photos

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Mission San Buenaventura, VenturaMission San BuenaventuraThe original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia.CC BY 1.0resized
Stucco and tileA Spanish style house.penelope_134CC BY-SA 2.0resized
Ojai, Ventura CountyOjai, California (7)Ken LundCC BY-SA 2.0resized
Hills above OjaiOjai, California (25)Ken LundCC BY-SA 2.0resized
Downtown VenturaVentura, California (3)Ken LundCC BY-SA 2.0resized
Ojai arcadeOjai, CaliforniaKen LundCC BY-SA 2.0resized

Photo library: tile roof styles

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Mission Revival building with clay tile roofs (San Fernando, California)Bishop Alemany High SchoolCbl62CC BY-SA 3.0resized, saved as JPEG
Spanish Eclectic house with a clay tile roof (Knoxville, Tennessee)1615-n-hills-knoxville-tn1Brian StansberryCC BY 3.0resized, saved as JPEG
Mediterranean Revival house with a tile roof (Buffalo, New York)Charles and Rose Waldrow House, Buffalo, New York - 20201229Andre CarrotflowerCC BY-SA 4.0resized, saved as JPEG
Spanish Mission Revival house, John Sprunt Hill House (Durham, North Carolina)John Sprunt Hill House, Morehead Hill, Durham, NC - 49160973118w_lemayCC0 1.0resized, saved as JPEG
Stone cottage with an old clay tile roof (Gran Canaria, Spain)Casa canaria medianias santa brigida gran canariaMarianne Perdomo from Gran Canaria, SpainCC BY-SA 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Villa with red tile roofs and a gardenRed tiled roofshannibal1107CC BY 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Weathered clay barrel tile in the Provence style, close up (Provence, France)Typical Provence-style roof tilesDanoCC BY 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Barrel tile courses on a stone church (Carabias, Spain)Carabias (2001) 03_03.jpg)LBM1948CC BY-SA 4.0resized, saved as JPEG
Traditional stone house with clay tile (Avila, Spain)Hoyos de M.M. casaXemenenduraCC BY-SA 4.0resized, saved as JPEG
Clay tile roofs and white chimneys below the mountainsClay tile roofs and white colonial-style chimneys set against misty mountains and a deep blue sky.Amanda Valverde MoraCC0 1.0resized, saved as JPEG
Clay tile over a courtyard colonnade (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)Flowers and Roof TilesAryaazmaCC0 1.0resized, saved as JPEG
Mission style house with clay tile, Alonzo Key House (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)1414 N Hudson Ave, Oklahoma City, OK USA - Alonzo Key House (Mission Style) - Heritage Hills (Year Built-1914) - panoramio-_Heritage_Hills(Year_Built-1914)_-_panoramio.jpg)MARELBUCC BY 3.0resized, saved as JPEG

Photo library: repair examples

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Example: new clay tiles laid in beside weathered ones (Avila, Spain)Tejas nuevas AngosturaXemenenduraCC BY-SA 4.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: clay tile capping a wall, the mortar cracked and weathered (Becedas, Spain)Becedas 39XemenenduraCC BY-SA 4.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: a valley and wall junction on a clay tile roof (Corsica, France)Corsica 2006j_baryCC BY 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: clay tile ending over a metal roof, a junction that needs flashing (Verona, Italy)Castelvecchio Museumratio-partnersCC BY 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: an old chimney on a clay tile roof, shortly before it was replaced (Graz, Austria)Chimney in GrazDr. Marcus GosslerCC BY-SA 3.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: a glass roof beside clay tile, one long flashed edge (Sonoma Valley, California)Jacuzzi Family Vineyards & Winery, Sonoma Valley, California, USAjimg944CC BY 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: an old roof patched with many replacement tiles (Hockenheim, Germany)20110329Am Bachrain Hockenheim2AnRo0002CC0 1.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: plants growing in barrel tile (Malaga, Spain)043. Molino de PapelPor los caminos de MálagaCC BY 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: a tile roof that has partly collapsed (Madeira, Portugal)2010-03-03 18 47 01 Portugal-SeixalHansueli KrapfCC BY-SA 3.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: old tiles and underlayment torn off during a re-roof (Antalya, Turkey)Antalya - DachziegelWolfgang SauberCC BY-SA 3.0resized, saved as JPEG
Example: a vent opening in a clay tile fieldRanger Roofing of Oklahoma - Emergency Roof RepairjpoyterPublic Domain Mark 1.0resized, saved as JPEG

Photo library: work in progress

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Battens fixed over a new membrane, ready for tile (Hungary)Szigetelés barnaKissJR1CC BY-SA 4.0resized, saved as JPEG
Roofers re-tiling over new battens (Munich, Germany)Dachdecken GO-2Gras-OberCC BY-SA 3.0resized, saved as JPEG
Carpenters fixing battens over membrane on a hipped roofDulgheri pe acoperisHectorBalzacCC BY-SA 3.0resized, saved as JPEG
New tiles loaded out across fresh battens (Devon, England)Re-roofing, Old Woods Hill - geograph.org.uk - 6287041Derek HarperCC BY-SA 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Re-roofing with tiles staged on the roof (Devon, England)Re-roofing, Old Woods Hill - geograph.org.uk - 6287042Derek HarperCC BY-SA 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Loose clay tiles stacked in a courtyard (Pompeii, Italy)Clay Tiles (15234227264).jpg)daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaCC BY-SA 2.0resized, saved as JPEG
Broken concrete roof tiles in a pile (Lysekil, Sweden)Broken black roof tiles 1W.carterCC BY-SA 4.0resized, saved as JPEG
A roofer loading clay tile onto a stucco houseLeBlanc RoofingNational Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthPublic domainresized, saved as JPEG

Some photos are shown in black and white, tinted or cropped by the page design. The originals are at the source links. Changed versions of CC BY-SA photos are shared under the same license as the original. Public domain and CC0 photos are credited as a courtesy.

A written estimate, in your own time

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