I thought rubber roofs were going to replace metal ones due to noise factors? I’m going back some years here, but I remember neighbors complaining about metal roofs in a hailstorm.

What happened to rubber vs. metal?

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However, certain plan arrangements have to have flat roofs, others require pitched roofs due to the geometry involved.

I also wonder if the plural of roof is roofs or rooves

I am abnormally fascinated by the topic of roof materials, life expectancy of various roof materials and such. For instance one neighborhood says do not replace a cedar shingle roof with a new one as they are a fire hazard. Another has no such objection.

Personally I think more maintenance free roofing is needed in the Pacific Northwest as people simply do not want to spend their “free” time mowing big lots or keeping landscaping trimmed to size or performing annual cleanup maintenance of their roof.

The trend for small lot and low maintenance angers some…but pleases the majority of today’s home buyers. So what roof will list in this area with little or no maintenance?

The Levittown style seems to be a “rolled roof” as the norm. I am running into these more and more in the last 3 weeks. Your opinion on roof types, pro and con, would be much appreciated.

The link is causing me to play Summerwind and say Ring a ding ding

In PA, most people wanted a 4 bedroom colonial with a basement.

In FL you could hardly sell a house that wasn’t concrete block construction, regardless of style, because of extensive termite activity there. The worst cases of LP siding I have seen, I saw in Florida due to humidity and constant water sprinkling of the lawns that poured on the lower rungs of the siding.

I remember Disney participating in a community that looked like a movie set with all the fancy, victorian era look porch gingerbread done in plastic vs. wood, to outperform in rot producing locations.

Different places build with different materials. When in L.A. by the ocean, wrought iron was replaced with plastic and materials that were not as susceptible to salt water caused erosion.

Seems to me that here in the Pacific Northwest, composite shingle can be a breeding ground for moss on the roof. Makes me wonder why we see them so often here, vs metal or other less moss-prone materials.