This local house has rocks on the roof instead of shingles
This local house has rocks on the roof instead of shingles
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Depending on where you live in the American southwest, that’s the norm. Shingles are weird.
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This is in central Saskatchewan. Presumably those southwest roofs are flat - this isn't.
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Low slope, so considered flat for most codes, can’t use shingles. Basically every commercial roof has rocks, but In the last decade they’ve shifted to a vinyl. Lighter, handles more snow load.
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Weird. I would assume that rocks would be problematic for snow and would just encourage snow to stick and add street to the framing.
The only rock roofs I’ve ever come across are in temperate places that don’t get snow.
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I grew up in Phoenix in the early 80s and I saw many of these.
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Saw something similar to this in Tempe last year, but I didn't see any lawns like this in the area, I don't think I saw much of any green the 3 weeks or so I was there.
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Slate shingle roofs used to be the norm.
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Not in this part of the world though.
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Doubt it, thatch and wattle and daub are the norm. Slate needs to be mined, it doesn't just grow near you.
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Yes and in some parts of the world it's really easy and cheap to mine surface slate.
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Weird. I a few months ago I stumbled upon two mid century apartments in my town that both had rock roofs.
I wonder OP’s roof didn’t used to be painted.
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The Home School of Rock.
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We should project this onto the whitehouse.
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It's not instead of shingles, that's a tin roof instead of shingles. This is a design aesthetic.
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Souns like I'd go deaf at the thought of rain.
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A tin roof sounds absolutely wonderful in the rain. My cottage has one.
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Hot rocks in your area
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happy cat noises
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Phar out. I wonder what they use for waterproofing?
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EPDM is the most common material for modern rubber/stone roofs in commercial applications.
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Meanwhile, EPMD is an uncommon hip hop duo from Brentwood.
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neat
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I've ripped off my fair share of pitch and gravel roofs, that's definitely not the kind of stone you'd normally use (but it could still be). When you see granules or rocks on a roof, it's usually meant as a heat sink to stop the tar or shingles from cracking and degrading. Otherwise, I've also ripped off slate roofs, and they used lead wide head roofing nails, though at some point they had just tarred over the whole thing, and eventually we put basic ashpalt shingles on it.
This guy roofs.
He's clearly a dog.
As much as I respect the standard 3-tab, I'm more engaged by the high-albedo options.
I...what is this fresh language you speak
Pitch of that roof would need a membrane under shingles, no?
That size was a style back in the day. The house my dad built in the late 50s had one. I believe they were often lava rock.
This is not a flat roof though, it's sloped.