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News Release from: Marley Eternit | Subject: Natural clay plain tiles
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 December 2005
Marley Eternit are tiles of choice in
Chiba, Japan
Natural clay plain tiles from Marley Eternit are helping a Tudor-style house in Japan come to terms with being as much a celebrity as its owner.
Natural clay plain tiles from Marley Eternit are helping a Tudor-style house in Japan come to terms with being as much a celebrity as its owner The GBP750,000 home was commissioned on a large forest plot by a Mr Hayakawa, a local celebrity in one of the thriving provincial cities of Chiba prefecture, or state, near Tokyo
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 7 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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It was built over nine months, with Trad UK - a Japanese design and build company that specialises in English houses and gardening - acting as supplier and consultant for the roof tiles.
Mr Hayakawa wanted the home he shares with his wife, daughter and mother to be roofed with British tiles and found Trad UK over the Internet.
Although the company had not used Marley Eternit materials before, it sourced a brochure on the manufacturer's range of natural clay plain tiles from a reception at the British Embassy in Tokyo.
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Trad UK's president and executive producer Kazuhiko Takahashi specified the 150-year-old single-cambered Hawkins plain tile in Staffordshire Blue colour and some 30,000 were used to roof the house that at 500m2 is exceptionally large compared to the average house in Japan.
Inside is a mix of Western and Japanese styles.
"I chose the Hawkins tiles because I had an impression they had sufficient hardness and quality to bear the Japanese climate which is humid and very warm in the summer but also subject to typhoons and earthquakes," he said.
"In Japan the roofing industry is rather conservative and does not like to use non-Japanese roof tiles in many cases".
"However, for this particular project I decided to use British plain tiles to fulfil the client's strong hope.
I could say this is a rare case." Trad UK, that designs and builds houses in Cotswold, Victorian, Georgian and Queen Anne styles, also imported other British materials such as elevation materials, drainpipes, fencing, weathervane and awnings for the Chiba prefecture project.
Mr Takahashi added: "It seems the house has been drawing local people's attention very well and I heard it had already welcomed some visitors such as local celebrities and experts".
"I have an impression it is highly evaluated in Japan in terms of the size, quality and design.
The client is really satisfied not only by the appearance now but also he is looking forward to seeing the tiles get their mossy effect as a natural process of being exposed to a climate".
"I feel honoured that I could purchase the Marley Eternit product". Request a free brochure from Marley Eternit ...
"The people there were nice and kind which I think greatly attributed to the completion of this project.".
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