The roof is an important element in the overall appearance of your home. Knowing how to choose the roofing shingles will help ensure that you make a choice that will suit your home's appearance as well as work in the climate where you live. Hopefully, your roof will last a long time so you don't want to be stuck with the wrong color. It can also depend upon the architectural style of your home and upon many other factors ranging from energy efficiency to keeping your next door neighbor happy.
Some roofing materials, such as slate, wood shakes, and copper, have remained virtually unchanged for centuries. But a considerable array of other roofing materials have joined them, from the perennial favorite, asphalt-fiberglass, to newer products made from fiber cement, concrete, and plastic composites. Most of these have been developed over the past couple of decades with an eye toward greater durability, easier installation, lower cost, sustainability, and other features homeowners want.
When choosing roofing materials, there are some important things we need to consider. They are as follows,
- Duration and ability of roofing material to withstand
- Properties of the material such as weight, thickness, durability, slope and shape
- Whether the material eco-friendly or not / recyclable or not
- Cost of the material.
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