Palm Beach Mission

Palm Beach Mission is an 18 3/8 inch mission barrel tile in the Legacy Collection of Ludowici Roof Tile. The system is made of tapered covers and straight barrel pans with a smooth surface. Fewer pieces are needed per square than with shorter mission tiles, and the tiles can be laid in straight rows or staggered.

Palm Beach Mission is one of the clay mission barrel tile roofs in the line. The tile is smooth by default and can be given custom textures. Palm Beach Mission is part of the line that carries the mark Made in America for over 130 years.

• Weight per square: 1165 lbs
• Pieces per square: 163
• Overall size: 8 inches x 18 3/8 inches
• Exposure: 11 1/2 inches C.C. x 15 3/8 inches
• Installed barrel height off deck: 4 3/8 inches nominal
• Minimum slope: 5:12

Palm Beach Mission needs a slope of at least 5:12 and is laid with a headlap of at least 3 inches. The tiles can be laid in straight rows or staggered. Installation of Palm Beach Mission is covered by manual LRT-435, with a Spanish edition, LRT-435S.

The Palm Beach Mission 18 3/8 inch tile has these listed fittings.

• Rolled rake: length 18 3/8 inches, exposure 15 3/8 inches, 7.1 lbs per piece
• Eave closure: length 11 1/2 inches, exposure 11 1/2 inches, 1.7 lbs per piece
• Top fixture: length 7 1/2 inches, exposure 11 1/2 inches, 1.7 lbs per piece
• Short course: length 15 3/8 inches, exposure 12 3/8 inches, 6.5 lbs per piece

In a laid-tight method installation of Palm Beach Mission, short course pieces are the shorter cap tiles in the first row and the pans in the last row at the ridge.

Hips and ridges use one of two trim groups.

• Circular Cover hip and ridge trim group: CC-Hip Starter, CC-Hip, CC-Ridge, CC-Closed Ridge End, CC-2 Hip 1 Ridge Terminal and CC-Low Bump 2 Hip 1 Ridge Terminal
• #102/#206 hip and ridge trim group: #152 Hip Starter, #102 Hip Roll, #206 Ridge, #206 Closed Ridge End, #102/#206 2 Hip 1 Ridge Terminal, #405 High Bump 2 Hip 1 Ridge Terminal and #406 High Bump Gable Terminal

The base texture is smooth. Custom textures listed are battered butts, brushed butts, hand slushed, heavy machine scoring, medium machine scoring and weathered. Palm Beach Mission comes in all standard and custom colors, mists and blends of the Ludowici color program, which includes terra cotta glazes.

Palm Beach Mission listings: Miami-Dade NOA No. 12-0904.17 and State of Florida Approval No. FL 13777. Palm Beach Mission is an ASTM C1167 Grade 1 roof tile with water absorption less than 2%, with a Class A fire rating.

• Miami-Dade NOA No. 23-0125.08 (Mission)
• IAPMO UES ER-452, which also appears as evaluation report ER 0452-2026
• Texas Department of Insurance evaluation report, file rc309
• Florida Building Code evaluation report

The 75-year warranty against color fading and manufacturing defects covers Palm Beach Mission, made in the United States.

Palm Beach Mission has five defined accessory pieces.

• Terminal: installed where hips and ridges intersect
• Ridge tile: covers the uppermost horizontal part of the roof
• Hip starter (also called bullnose): installed at the bottom of the hip
• Closed ridge end: closed-end tile installed at the gable end of the ridge
• Hip tile: covers the external angle where two sloped planes meet

The Palm Beach Mission drawing set is issued in PDF and AutoCAD formats, with zip bundles of all details.

• PBM-100: Section at eave
• PBM-101: Section at side wall
• PBM-102: Section at head wall
• PBM-103: Section at rake edge
• PBM-200: Section at circular cover hip
• PBM-201: Section at #102 hip
• PBM-300: Section at circular cover ridge
• PBM-301: Section at circular cover vented ridge
• PBM-302: Section at #206 ridge
• PBM-303: Section at #206 vented ridge
• PBM-400: Section at field cut valley
• PBM-401: Section at cut and closed valley

In the Palm Beach Mission set, numbers 200 to 303 are also keyed 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B, 6C and 6D, and 400 and 401 as 7A and 7B.

• Product sheet: LRT-503 Palm Beach Mission Clay Roof Tile
• Installation manual: LRT-435 Ludowici Barrel Tile Installation Manual (English), LRT-435S (Spanish)
• Environmental Product Declaration for clay tiles and fittings
• Safety data sheets for glazed and unglazed clay roofing tile: OSHA GHS SDS 2014 and China GHS SDS 2014

Other tiles in the Ludowici barrel line are Scandia, Spanish 13 inch, Spanish 18 inch, Cubana, Greek, Italia, Roman, Straight Barrel Mission 14, 16 and 18 inch, and Tapered Barrel Mission 14 inch.