Roofing tiles What to do with them ?

lora

I have about 200-250 tiles left over from a small extension. Varying sizes. Any ideas what I could do with them ?

ormus

sell em on ebay or give em away on freecycle?

Dave101t

make a sculpture, sell as paperweights, take to local tip..

lora

I have tried to sell them and give them away before-nobody wanted them. Any ideas to use them ? I was trying to avoid just dumping them.

hewhoisnotintheknow

ebay or try and sell em back to where you bought them

failing that freecycle or ring the builder up who fitted em, he might be able to take em away for free

ormus

if they were slates id take em off your hands, for free.

SailorSam

ues them as edging around the garden / path

andrew-b

If neighbours houses are similarly tiled offer them some for spares. I acquired about a dozen from a house down the road for spares - of which i've used a couple already to replace chipped tiles.

lora

I have already given supplies to our neighbours. We did the building ourselves and bought the tiles a few years ago. Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

cyclonebri1

2 things make sure you save some as sooner or later a tile or ten will get blown off or damaged.

There are many suppliers of 2nd hand tiles and slates that are bought for matching renovation work. They will but most types. The only recent experience is that of used Rosemary or biscuit tiles as they are known in the trade. we were offered 8p each, then 10p and finally found a local buyer at 12p, but we did have a full roof load;)

Just another thought as you seem handy at that end, you'd probably have enough there to roof a garden store, concrete block built, and a darn site more secure than a shed.

lora

They are biscuit tiles. How did you guess we had concrete blocks left over as well :eek: If we built a block built garden store-knowing the problems we have had in the past we would need planning permission-lol. They already regarded a wooden pergola as a building and therefore did not want to give planning permission for our very small extension.