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Why use shingles at all? all we ever seem to see in news coverage of America is people nailing the bleeding things back on after any kind of storm ;->
We have a corrugated iron roof and have never had a problem with it, Hail is just noisy. The “old dear” across the road has done no maintenance to the roof for about 30 years as far as I can tell, And our neighbours are about the same. She did get it painted however, problem being the guy who did it was as shoddy as they come and trampled the bull nose until it had a big trench in it allowing water to pool and leak.
Jake Anderson

Much of the US seems to mandate a particular appearance of roof for ... appearances sake. This includes things like requiring (flammable) cedar shingles in housing developments in hot and dry southwest, where it's not uncommon for house fires to start from sparks landing on the roof.
Bill W

true.....sometimes its the look your after. Steel roofing can look very nice, just slippery to work on! I've yet to lose a single shingle after 5 years, the roofer I used...he lives at the mouth of a canyon that gets 100+ winds every year. He said....havent lost a shingle yet.....I hired him :-)
Alan Smith

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