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When building a home for the first time or when re-roofing an existing home ... granular upper surface and smooth asphalt layering over a fiberglass base. Shingles are typically nailed onto ...

Made of a variety of compositions, including plastic/polymer, clay, rubber, and asphalt, composite roofing can be slippery. If you live in a snowy climate, consider installing snow guards to ...

Carlisle pretty much created and dominated the market. A rubber sheet that had significant advantages in installation, performance and cost compared to traditional asphalt flat roofs grew rapidly in ...

CADT is Commercial Average Daily Traffic. RMA is Rubber Modified Asphalt. EL, EML, and EMH refer to mix design. The mixture number (2–5) corresponds to gradation, where 2 is the base mix and 5 is the ...

Most homeowners have to replace their roof shingles at some point. Exposed to sunlight, heat, cold, rain, wind, and sometimes snow, sleet and hail, conventional asphalt shingle roofs last 20 years ...

Your roof provides your house’s chief protection against severe weather and all that comes with it: hail, water and ice, fallen trees, and debris. CR’s testing focuses strictly on asphalt roof ...

Rubber roofing is usually laid on flat commercial roofs, it does not look good on a regular home, especially if it is wrinkled. Asphalt shingles are the most common residential roofing material.