Roof Photos: Tile Styles and Repair Examples

Lots of tile roof photos in one place: clay and concrete tile styles, what common repairs look like, and roofs in the middle of the work.

Tile styles Repair examples

Checked November 10, 2026

Heads up: these are real, openly licensed photos used as examples. None of them shows our work or any particular roofer's work. Captions say what is in the photo and where it was taken when we know. Photo credits

Not sure what you are looking at on your roof? Scroll through these. You will see the most common tile styles, what cracked tiles, worn ridges and tired flashing look like, and what happens while a roof is being worked on.

Spotted something? Take the quick roof check on the home page, then look at the cost guide to see how that kind of job is priced, or read about leaks and repair.

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Tile roof styles

Barrel, mission, flat and patterned clay, on all kinds of homes. Tap any photo to make it bigger.

Small stucco post office with a red-brown curved tile roof over its front porch, Calipatria, California — A small post office on a red-brown curved tile porch roofCalipatria, California

Long white adobe-style building with a covered walkway, two rows of weathered red-brown mission tile and old trees, Santa Clara, California — A long covered walkway under weathered red-brown mission tileSanta Clara, California

Yellow 1920s California house with pumpkins on its tiled front steps and a red-brown curved tile roof, San Mateo, California — Pumpkins on the front steps, under red-brown curved tileSan Mateo, California

Prichard House, a stone house with a bright red tile roof, seen through an iron gate between two stone pillars — Prichard House behind a stone gate, under bright red tile

Caroline Bumiller House, a yellow two-story house with a hipped red-brown curved tile roof behind purple flowering hedges, Los Angeles, California — Flowering hedges in front of a hipped red-brown curved tile roofLos Angeles, California

White Spanish style apartment buildings with red-brown tile roofs, tall palm trees and a round garden lawn — White Spanish style apartments with red tile roofs and palm trees

Spanish Mission style house with red, gold and blue blend roof tile and red curved tile topping a low garden wall, Sydney, Australia — Curved tile on a garden wall, by a multicolor blend roofSydney, Australia

Close view of rows of old barrel tile in faded terracotta and tan, with gray lichen and small weeds between the rows, Italy — Lichen and weathering, close up on faded terracotta barrel tileItaly

Close view of old red barrel tiles covered in orange and gray lichen, with mortar showing along the rows — Orange lichen and gray patina on old red barrel tile

Flat roof tiles with rounded ends laid in a patchwork of red, orange, tan and dark brown, Montreux, Switzerland — A patchwork of colors on red, tan and brown flat tileMontreux, Switzerland

Straight rows of barrel tile in mixed orange, peach and pale tan, seen straight on, Madeira, Portugal — Neat straight rows on two-tone orange and tan barrel tileMadeira, Portugal

Bright orange barrel tile laid in neat rows over a white eave, with the ridge line against a blue sky, Gran Canaria, Spain — Clean rows at the eave on bright orange barrel tileGran Canaria, Spain

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Repair examples

What tile roof trouble looks like up close. Jump to the kind you are wondering about.

Cracked, slipped or missing Ridges and hips Flashing, vents and skylights Moss and lichen

Cracked, slipped or missing

Repair example: old barn roof of faded red, tan and gray flat tiles with holes, missing tiles and newer orange patches, Ladenburg, Germany — Example: holes and missing pieces on old mixed-color flat tileLadenburg, Germany

Repair example: weathered gray curved roof tiles with dark moss and a short row of clear greenish glass tiles, Czech Republic — Example: a row of glass tiles in mossy gray curved tileCzech Republic

Repair example: old faded tan curved tile roof meeting a rough stone wall, with broken eave tiles and plaster falling away, Mallorca, Spain — Example: a crumbling eave by a stone wall, on faded tan curved tileMallorca, Spain

Repair example: broken brown roof tile pieces scattered across a white balcony floor by an iron railing, New Orleans, Louisiana — Example: broken tile pieces on a balcony, from brown curved tileNew Orleans, Louisiana

Ridges and hips

Repair example: a magpie preening on ridge cap tiles above red interlocking roof tile with a ridge vent strip, Heidelberg, Germany — Example: a magpie on the ridge cap, on red interlocking tileHeidelberg, Germany

Repair example: a carved dog head at the end of a hip ridge, on faded pink-red ribbed roof tile, Porto Santo, Portugal — Example: a dog-head ornament at the hip ridge on pink-red ribbed tilePorto Santo, Portugal

Flashing, vents and skylights

Repair example: two rusty vent pipes coming through an orange-red tile roof with yellow lichen, a gull and its chicks nearby, Porto, Portugal — Example: rusty vent pipes and gulls on orange-red tile with lichenPorto, Portugal

Repair example: torn and patched metal flashing around a red brick chimney on a mossy dark gray tile roof, Mettmann, Germany — Example: torn chimney flashing on mossy dark gray tileMettmann, Germany

Repair example: dark skylight panels set into an orange-red clay barrel tile roof with small dormers, Sacred Valley, Peru — Example: skylights set into orange-red clay barrel tileSacred Valley, Peru

Moss and lichen

Repair example: thick clumps of green moss growing across red-brown interlocking roof tile, seen from below, Ha Long, Vietnam — Example: thick green moss on red-brown interlocking tileHa Long, Vietnam

Repair example: close view of old brown barrel tile rows with pale green lichen patches and dry moss between them — Example: pale lichen spots on old brown barrel tile

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Work in progress

Underlayment, battens and tile going back on. Swipe through the rest.

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Brick farm building mid-repair, its red and blue-gray mixed tile roof partly stripped to the wrap and battens, Huldenberg, Belgium — Old tiles off one slope, battens showing, on red and blue-gray tile

Closer view of the same brick farm roof, with dark wrap and new battens between sections of red and blue-gray mixed tile, Huldenberg, Belgium — The same farm roof up close, battens between red and blue-gray tile

Same roof, two angles: tap the buttons to switch. You can see where old tile came off and bare battens wait for new tile.

Underlayment and battens ready for tile, under scaffoldingBaden, Germany
A roofer on the battens, with stacks of new orange-red tileGdansk, Poland
Roofers at work under scaffolding, on new red tile and battensBaiersbronn, Germany
A big pile of salvaged orange-red clay barrel tile
Stacks of old faded red-brown barrel tile against a wallKakopetria, Cyprus

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