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North Americans even use wooden shingles for their roof instead of ceramic or slate tiles, metal panelling (zinc etc), which are more common in my experience in
by dkdbejwi383 5y ago
North Americans even use wooden shingles for their roof instead of ceramic or slate tiles, metal panelling (zinc etc), which are more common in my experience in Europe.
- CapitalistCartr 5y agoWood shingles (shakes) are used, but extremely rarely. The most common roofing type is asphalt shingles. Tile and metal roofs are far more common than wood.
- nemo44x 5y agoDepends where you live. There are towns in California where it’s all ceramic. Skate is popular in some older homes but it’s quite expensive. Most homes have asphalt tiles as they are reliable, easy to install, and inexpensive vs the other options. Siding however has a lot of variety. In the northeast you see a lot of wood siding (cedar shingle) where as in many other parts it’s aluminum or vinyl (made to look like wood) or stucco.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoNobody in the northeast or anywhere is using shakes for siding except where required for regulatory compliance (bylaws that mandate historic looking materials and other crap like that).
- nemo44x 5y agoWhere I live it’s pretty much all you see. The homes are old but hardly any of them have regulatory requirements. I recently did a renovation which required 2 outside walls to be modified and they put cedar shingle up to match the existing siding.
- dylan604 5y agoI would have thought that the extremely high cost of insurance premiums for wood shingles had pretty much eliminated them from use, especially for new consttruction or roof replacements.