Aged roofing tile system
AssigneeEvans Brothers Investments
InventorsMichael Evans, Lewis Evans
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Abstract
A system, method, and apparatus for constructing and installing a roofing tile having an arbitrary design of color, patterns, textures, and the like in accordance with the requirements of a user, a designer, an architect, or the like, and provides an ability to select a color scheme for a base tile, variegations within the color of the base tile, as well as accent medallions having color, textures, and the like. Moreover, a texture may be provided to improve adhesion of the accent medallions to the base tile. In alternative embodiments, no texturing is required, but may be provided simply as a design element affecting shading in varied lighting.
Claims60
A method for decorating a cementitious substrate, the method comprising:
- selecting a base color scheme for a substrate formed of a cementitious material;
- selecting an accent color scheme;
- providing the substrate having the base color scheme and a top surface, the top surface having an exposed portion and a covered portion;
- applying before curing, to the exposed portion of the surface of the substrate, a substantially random distribution of medallions of a cementitious material as accents, colored in the accent color scheme;
- curing together the substrate of the accent medallions to form a durable, bonded, color-accented substrate.
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