Free roof inspection and an obligation-free quote.
The Camberwell Potteries terracotta roof tile works on Highbury Road, Burwood. The company began here in 1930, making the tiles that went onto Melbourne’s roofs. The workshop and showroom are still a few streets away.
About Camberwell Potteries Roofing
Meet the crew
The people who will actually turn up. We had them drawn because getting this lot to stand still for a photograph was never going to happen.
Making Melbourne roofs since the 1930s
Camberwell Potteries did not start out installing roofs. It started out making them.
The company was established in 1930 as a manufacturer of terracotta roof tiles, from a works on Highbury Road in Burwood. Many of the terracotta roofs still standing across Melbourne’s eastern suburbs came out of that period. From the mid-1970s the business moved into distribution, supplying CSR Monier, Wunderlich, Boral Montoro and Nubrik tiles.
Over the decades that followed, the business narrowed to what it does now: re-roofing, restoration, repairs and major renovation work on tiled roofs. Camberwell Potteries Roofing has since grown into one of the largest re-roofing companies in Melbourne, and it has never worked on anything but tile.
We are still in Burwood, a few streets from where the kilns were, and we still work on tiled roofs only — terracotta and concrete. No metal, no slate, no decramastic.
That focus is the point. Ninety years of working with the same material means we can usually identify a tile by its profile, tell you roughly when a roof was laid, and know what is likely to be underneath before we lift anything. We are an accredited CSR and Monier roofing specialist and a dual supplier of both Monier and Bristile tiles, so the tile is chosen to suit your roof rather than whichever brand we happen to stock.
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Major projects have included
- Seamen’s Mission building
- Camberwell Primary School
- Moonee Ponds West Primary School
- Newman College (Melbourne Uni)
- Scotch College
- Malvern Park Primary School
- Mont Albert Primary School
- Canterbury Primary School
- Commonwealth Golf Club
- Donovan’s Restaurant
HOW IT WORKS
Inspection first, then a quote
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Free Inspection
We get on the roof and look properly — pointing, tiles, valleys, flashings and, where we can reach it, the sarking. That is what decides between a repair, a restoration and a replacement.
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Written Quote
We show you what we found and give you a written, obligation-free quote for the work your roof actually needs. If it is a repair rather than a replacement, we will say so.
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The Work
Installed to the Australian Building Code and the manufacturer guides, which is what keeps your tile warranty intact. Site cleaned, gutters cleared, rubbish taken away.
