Call the guy back and offer to buy 50-100 from him at say half of current
retail. If he has had them since 2004 he needs to sell them worse than you
need to buy them. Think about it. What is he going to do with them? He does
not have enough to roof an entire house and can not get more. Then again if
you can afford to live in a house whose roof alone cost 40 grand why are you
worried about this? Pay the man what he wants to fix it.

Joe

"MiamiCuse" wrote in message
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My house has a new barrel tiled roof put on in 2004. At the time the
previous owner paid $40000 for the new roof.

Since then a few tiles (about six) were damaged badly and I need to
replace them. I called around and found that the tiles are still being
manufactured but the specific color has been discontinued. The tiles are
called Vanguarf Roll:

http://www.monierlifetile.com/produc...d&profileid=38

I finally located the roofer who installed the roof and he told me he did
a few jobs with that tile in 2004 and still have lots of left over tiles.
In fact he said he has a whole pallate of it, like 500 pieces. He asked
me if I want to buy it form him. I told him I needed 10-12 pieces but he
was not interested to sell me 10-12.

He said if I get another hurricane it would be wise to get as many tiles
as I can, but do I really need 500 pieces? This will take up a good part
of my garage. He said to give him a price...now I am wondering first,
should I get it and if so, how much should it be?

If not I can always order the 10-12 I need in another color and try to
stain it to match.

Any thoughts and comments?

Thanks,

MC