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Materials
Every common residential roof covering: lifespan, installed cost per square, weight, ratings, and what fails first.
Asphalt shingles
The default residential roof covering in the United States by a wide margin. Fiberglass mat, asphalt coating, mineral gr…
Steep and low slopeMetal roofing
Steel, aluminum, copper or zinc, in standing-seam panels with concealed fasteners or exposed-fastener corrugated sheet. …
Steep slopeClay and concrete tile
Very long-lived and very heavy. The tile commonly outlasts the underlayment beneath it by decades, which means a tile ro…
Steep slopeSlate
Quarried stone. The longest-lived roof covering in common use and the least forgiving of unskilled work. Genuine slate r…
Steep slopeWood shake and shingle
Split shakes or sawn shingles, usually western red cedar. Restricted or banned outright in many wildfire-prone jurisdict…
Steep slopeSynthetic and composite
Engineered polymer shingles moulded to imitate slate or shake at a fraction of the weight. Young enough as a category th…
Low slopeFlat and low-slope membranes
TPO, EPDM, PVC, modified bitumen and built-up roofing. Below roughly 2:12 a shingle roof is not watertight and a membran…