Everyone would like to have nice natural roof. And everyone wants to pay as little as possible for it.
In order to satisfy the market which requires naturally looking roofing materials (with the lowest possible price) the roofing manufacturers try to replicate the mother nature. They take the cheap, shapeable synthetic materials and change them into well looking cedar or slate imitations.
Nowadays, there is couple of materials used to provide the slate or cedar-like look of the roofing shingles.
The most often used are as follows:
- fake slate/wood shingles made of rubber;
- fake slate/wood shingles made of PVC;
- fake slate/wood shingles mad...
I admit that
rubber is my favourite roofing material.
Why? Why not! Itīs flexible. Itīs not conductive. Itīs light-weight and soft. It never lets water through... So why not to make it the roofing material?
Recycled roofing material
Usually, rubber for rubber roofing comes from the recycled rubber (a commendable approach) like the old tires, for example. In the rubber mill, the old tire is chipped, small rubber pieces are gathered and mixed with various chemicals to produce the RRPV (Recycled Rubber Polyurethane Elastomer) or the EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer).
[SHOP1]
Uness you are a professional chemist, thereīs no reason to talk about the exact co...
