When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_shingle

   Composite or synthetic shingles are a relatively new type of shingle material that are made from a blend of materials, including asphalt, fiberglass, and other polymers. These shingles are designed to mimic the look of natural materials such as wood, slate, or clay and aim to increase the durability, strength, and resistance to weather elements ...

3. Asphalt shingle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_shingle

   Asphalt shingles on a home in Avalon, New Jersey. Two types of base materials are used to make asphalt shingles, organic and fiberglass.Both are made in a similar manner, with an asphalt-saturated base covered on one or both sides with asphalt or modified-asphalt, the exposed surface impregnated with slate, schist, quartz, vitrified brick, stone, [6] or ceramic granules, and the under-side ...

4. Wood shingle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_shingle

   Today shingles are mostly made by being cut which distinguishes them from shakes, which are made by being split out of a bolt. Wooden shingle roofs were prevalent in the North American colonies (for example in the Cape-Cod-style house), while in central and southern Europe at the same time, thatch, slate and tile were the prevalent roofing ...

5. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercially...

   Rubber shingle, an alternative to asphalt shingle, slate, shake or tile. Made primarily of rubber, often recycled tire-derived rubber. Other typical ingredients include binders, UV (ultraviolet light) inhibitors and color. Warranted and designed to last at least 50 years in most cases. Asbestos shingles. Very long lifespan, fireproof, and low ...

6. Asphalt roll roofing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_roll_roofing

   Asphalt roll roofing or membrane is a roofing material commonly used for buildings that feature a low sloped roof pitch in North America. The material is based on the same materials used in asphalt shingles ; an organic felt or fiberglass mat, saturated with asphalt , and faced with granular stone aggregate.

7. Warnings of 'fast-moving fire' after Los Angeles gets brief ...

   www.aol.com/powerful-winds-threaten-erase...

   The fire was so intense it lofted and melted a piece of roofing copper from its tower, dropping it hundreds of feet away. ... unlike our neighbors' homes with a lot of wood and composite shingles ...