Just like the widely popular classic tiles, shingles present a cheaper are still quite affordable. Materials used to make shingles are mostly locally available say wood and slate. It makes sense to have them offered for sale at a reduced price. That’s what we do. Even then, the quality is not compromised to be in line with the reduced cost. Instead, the manufacturing process at our Korean factory is completely modern with all properties that strengthen the tiles to survive the tough elements out there. If you need the best look and functionality for your roof and don’t have much for a budget, shingles can do you good.
Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive course overlapping the joints below. Shingles are made of various materials such as wood, slate, flagstone, fibre cement, metal, plastic, and composite material such as asphalt shingles. Ceramic roof tiles, which still dominate in Europe and some parts of Asia, are still usually called tiles. Roof shingles are a very common roofing material in the United States, but may deteriorate faster and need to repel more water than wall shingles.
The primary means of failure in a slate roof is when individual slates lose their peg attachment and begin to slide out of place. This can open up small gaps above each slate. A secondary mode of failure is when the slates themselves begin to break up. The lower parts of a slate may break loose, giving a gap below a slate. Commonly the small and stressed area above the nail hole may fail, allowing the slate to slip as before. In the worst cases, a slate may simply break in half and be lost altogether. A common repair to slate roofs is to apply ‘torching’, a mortar fillet underneath the slates, attaching them to the battens.This may applied as either a repair, to hold slipping slates, or per-emptively on construction.
Where slates are particularly heavy, the roof may begin to split apart along the roof line. This usually follows rot developing and weakening the internal timbers, often as a result of poor ventilation within the roof space. An important aspect to slate roofs is the use of a metal flashing which will last as long as the slates. Slate shingles may be cut in a variety of decorative patterns and are available in several colors.
Flagstone shingles are a traditional roofing material. Some stone shingles are fastened in place but some simply are held by gravity so the roof pitch cannot be too steep or the stones will slide off the roof. Sandstone has also been used to make shingles.
Is it safe to harvest water with these tiles?
Hello Samuel. Yes, It’s safe to harvest water using our roofing tiles more over the stone coated roofing tiles reduces the noise made by normal Ironsheet greatly whenever it rains.
I need pictures of types of tile’s with there name to able to choose the one I desire.