Clay and concrete tile roofing.
The roof on most Palm Beach County homes, set by our own crews since 2015.
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Why tile is the county standard.
Barrel tile has been the Palm Beach County roof since the county built out, and it stayed the standard on performance. Clay and concrete stand up to the two hardest exposures here: ultraviolet and salt air. Installed properly, the tile itself sits in the 50-year service class and carries a Class A fire rating, the top of that scale. The color holds through decades of sun because it is fired or cast into the material rather than coated on.
Clay is the kiln-fired barrel, the look on the county's Mediterranean estates, and its color is the clay itself. Concrete casts into a wider range of profiles, from flat slab to full barrel, and reaches the same look for less material cost. We install both, and the quote compares the two for your roof.
A tile roof also lowers the power bill. Air moves under the tiles, so less of the afternoon heat load reaches the deck. An Oak Ridge National Laboratory study put the heating and cooling savings at up to 20 percent a year for a typical single-family home against standard asphalt shingle.
Wind is the other half of the answer. Palm Beach County's design wind speeds are among the highest in the country, and the tile systems we install carry Miami-Dade product approvals, tested past the wind-uplift standard the code sets for coastal Palm Beach County. The engineering submittals go in with our permit filing and carry through to the final wind-uplift certification.
Tile outlives the layer under it.
A tile roof almost never fails at the tile. It fails at the waterproof membrane between the tile and the deck, which is what actually keeps the water out. The tile above it takes the sun and the wind load, and the heat it absorbs ages the membrane underneath.
That is why tile lifespans get quoted as 25 to 50 years rather than a flat 50. The low end of that range belongs to that membrane, not the tile. When the membrane ages out, the roof needs service even though the tile above it has decades left in it.
The service is a lift and relay: the tile comes up, a new membrane goes down, and sound tile goes back. It costs a fraction of a full replacement because the surface material is already on the roof.
One term worth knowing before you price that work: Eagle's current published warranty does not survive a complete lift and relay over three squares, so reusing the tile trades away the maker's remaining coverage on it. That tradeoff goes into the quote, in writing.
What the coverage is.
Tile earns its place on longevity rather than on a manufacturer program, and the paper reads differently from shingle paper. These terms are Eagle's, from the current published form, as a working example of how tile coverage runs.
The tile itself
Limited Lifetime from the maker
Eagle's current published warranty runs Limited Lifetime on the tile body: it must not let water pass through from normal exposure or a manufacturing defect. That covers the tile only; the install is our paper, not the maker's.
The first 10 years
Replacement cost, labor included
For the first 10 years after the original install, a verified manufacturing defect that lets water into the structure carries replacement-cost coverage under the same form, labor included.
When the house sells
It transfers automatically
The warranty follows the roof to the next owner on sale of the house. The form writes in no transfer fee and no cap on how many times it can pass, provided the original registration landed inside Eagle's 18-month window. We handle that registration at closeout, the same as any warranty we write.
GAF and tile
No GAF program applies
GAF does not make a tile product, so no GAF program applies to a tile roof, ours or anyone's. The Master Elite standing that writes the Golden Pledge on our shingle work stops at shingle. On tile, the maker's terms cover the product and our workmanship covers the install.
The rest of the lineup.
Tile is one of three systems we replace. The shingle page covers the GAF architectural lines and the Golden Pledge terms our Master Elite standing writes behind them. The metal page covers standing seam and stamped profiles.
How the job itself runs, first call to final inspection, lives on the replacement page. What drives the number sits on the cost page, and the financing page lays out how homeowners pay for it.