Crude

Crude is a terra cotta shingle tile in the Ludowici Legacy Collection. It is a clay residential roof tile with chipped corners, rounded butts and a rough stone surface that give an Old Europe appearance. Made in America for over 130 years is printed on the Crude sheet.

• Weight per square: 1935 lb
• Pieces per square: 480
• Overall size: 6 inches by 12 inches by 5/8 inch
• Exposure: 6 inches by 5 inches
• Recommended minimum slope: 5:12
• Base texture: Stone
• Installed barrel height off deck: not applicable

A Crude tile is 6 inches wide, 12 inches long and 5/8 inch thick. With a 6-inch by 5-inch exposure, 480 pieces make up one square, and that square weighs 1935 lb. The header course piece is the heaviest fitting at 4.1 lb, and the short top is the lightest at 1.7 lb.

The base texture is Stone, with chipped corners and rounded butts. Custom textures are Battered Butts, Brushed Butts, Hand Slushed, Hand Warped, Pin Holes and Weathered.

Crude is made in all standard and custom matte colors, mists and blends developed by Ludowici. The terra cotta glaze range and the texture range are both published on the catalog 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
• IAPMO-UES ER 0452-2026 evaluation report
• Florida Building Code evaluation report

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

• Long top: actual size 6 inches by 9 inches, exposure 6 inches by 5 inches, 3.1 lb
• Short top: actual size 6 inches by 5 inches, exposure 6 inches by 2 inches, 1.7 lb
• End band: actual size 3 inches by 12 inches, exposure 3 inches by 5 inches, 2.1 lb
• Under eave: actual size 6 inches by 7 inches, exposure 6 inches, 3.0 lb
• Header course: actual size 6 inches by 12 inches, exposure 6 inches by 9 inches, 4.1 lb

Hip and ridge pieces for Crude come in four trim groups, plus an Old Style group.

• 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
• Old Style group: 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 Crude.

Five accessory tile types are described for Crude, each finishing a different part of the roof.

• Terminal: a tile installed where hips and ridges intersect
• 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 meet

The Crude section drawings cover the eave, side wall, head wall, closed rake edge, open rake edge, V-hip, #118 hip, bonnet hip, V-ridge, #211 ridge, #211 vented ridge, rounded interlocking ridge and field cut valley. The drawing numbers run CRUDE-100 to CRUDE-104 for eave, wall and rake sections, CRUDE-200 to CRUDE-202 for hips, CRUDE-300 to CRUDE-303 for ridges and CRUDE-400 for the field cut valley. The CRUDE set is published in PDF and AutoCAD formats, and the full CRUDE set is also published as zip files.

• -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 Ludowici shingle tile range also includes Antique, Brittany, Calais, Colonial, Cotswold, Cottage, Flat Slab, Georgian, Greenwich, Norman, Provincial, Rustic Colonial.

Crude is manufactured in the United States and carries the Ludowici 75-year warranty against color fading and manufacturing defects. Product sheet LRT-539 covers the Crude clay roof tile shingle.