Polymer Roofing vs. Rubber Roofing Materials
When fake slate products were first introduced on the market, a number of them were made from a variety of different products. Some were made of old tires and some were made from cement boards. While the idea of old tires and the whole concept of recycling was a nice idea, unfortunately, the performance of those shingles wasn’t the best.
However, those rubber slate roof products left their mark on the roofing industry – so much so that we are often asked if our products are made from recycled rubber.
While we love the idea of recycling and helping the environment (and we do have a recycling program!), we also understand that tearing off a recycled rubber roof 5 years after it was installed would be not be helping the environment. We wanted to create a product that lasted.
Therefore, we decided to make our lightweight roofing materials from virgin polymer resins with some other goodies (like fire retardants) thrown in. We also wanted to avoid the issues that rubber roofs had – curling and cracking – so we added an engineered rib structure on the back of our shingles to ensure that they would lay flat for years to come. We did so much preliminary testing and analysis of other products that we even offer a 50 year warranty with our product.
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