Calais

Ludowici Calais is a shingle tile in the Legacy Collection. It is a terra cotta residential roof tile with a cratered surface and a rough bottom edge that give the look and character of centuries-old roof tile from France. Made in America for over 130 years is printed on the Calais sheet.

• Weight per square: 1600 pounds
• Pieces per square: 317
• Overall size: 7 inches by 15 inches by 1/2 inch
• Exposure: 7 inches by 6 1/2 inches
• Minimum slope: 5:12
• Base texture: Dimpled

The base texture of Calais is Dimpled, a cratered surface, with a rough bottom edge. Custom textures for Calais are available.

Calais tiles can be ordered with six custom textures: Battered Butts, Brushed Butts, Hand Slushed, Hand Warped, Pin Holes and Weathered.

Calais shingle tiles are made in standard and custom matte colors, mists and blends from the Ludowici color program.

Terra cotta glazes and terra cotta textures each have their own browser on the Calais product page.

• Miami-Dade NOA No: 12-0904.14
• State of Florida Approval No: FL 13777
• ASTM C1167 Grade 1 Roof Tile with water absorption less than 2%
• Class A fire rated
• IAPMO UES ER-452
• Miami-Dade NOA No: 23-0125.07 (Interlocking and Shingle)
• IAPMO Evaluation Report: IAPMO-UES ER 0452-2026
• Florida Building Code Evaluation Report

The Calais fitting pieces are listed with actual size, exposure and weight per piece.

• Long top: actual size 7 inches by 10 1/2 inches, exposure 7 inches by 6 1/2 inches, 4.2 pounds
• Short top: actual size 7 inches by 6 1/2 inches, exposure 7 inches by 4 1/2 inches, 2.6 pounds
• End band: actual size 3 1/2 inches by 15 inches, exposure 3 1/2 inches by 6 1/2 inches, 2.9 pounds
• Under eave: actual size 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches, exposure 7 inches, 3.4 pounds
• Header course: actual size 7 inches by 15 inches, exposure 7 inches by 12 inches, 5.0 pounds

For hips and ridges, Calais is paired with four trim groups.

• V-Hip and Ridge group: V-Hip Starter, V-Hip, V-Ridge, V-Closed Ridge End and V-2 Hip 1 Ridge Terminal
• #118/#211 group: #168 Hip Starter, #118 Hip Roll, #211 Ridge, #211 Closed Ridge End and #118/#211 2 Hip 1 Ridge Terminal
• Circular Cover group: CC-Hip Starter, CC-Hip, CC-Ridge, CC-Closed Ridge End, CC-2 Hip 1 Ridge Terminal and CC-Low Bump terminal
• #102/#206 group: #152 Hip Starter, #102 Hip Roll, #206 Ridge, #206 Closed Ridge End, #102/#206 2 Hip 1 Ridge Terminal, #405 High Bump terminal and #406 High Bump Gable Terminal

The Old Style group listed for Calais adds a Bonnet Hip Starter, Bonnet Hip Roll, Interlocking Ridge and Aries Hip Plate. The Bonnet Hip Starter, Bonnet Hip Roll and Aries Hip Plate carry an asterisk: the roof slope on each intersecting roof plane must be identical to use those pieces on Calais.

The Calais page defines five accessory types for hips and ridges.

• Terminal: a tile installed at the intersection of hip(s) and ridge(s)
• Ridge tile: shaped to cover the uppermost horizontal part of the roof
• Hip starter: installed at the bottom of the hip, also known as a bullnose
• Closed ridge end: a closed-end tile installed at the gable end of the ridge
• Hip tile: shaped to cover the external angle where two sloped planes intersect

The Calais drawing set runs from CALAIS-100 at the eave to CALAIS-400 at the field cut valley, in PDF and AutoCAD formats.

• -100: Section at eave
• -101: Section at side wall
• -102: Section at head wall
• -103: Section at closed rake edge
• -104: Section at open rake edge
• -200: Section at V-hip
• -201: Section at #118 hip
• -202: Section at bonnet hip
• -300: Section at V-ridge
• -301: Section at #211 ridge
• -302: Section at #211 vented ridge
• -303: Section at rounded interlocking ridge
• -400: Section at field cut valley

The Calais page lists these other shingle tiles: Antique, Brittany, Colonial, Cotswold, Cottage, Crude, Flat Slab, Georgian, Greenwich, Norman, Provincial and Rustic Colonial.

Calais is manufactured in the United States and carries the Ludowici 75-year warranty against color fading and manufacturing defects.