Amuletta@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 day agoThis local house has rocks on the roof instead of shingleslemmy.caimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down15
arrow-up1192arrow-down1imageThis local house has rocks on the roof instead of shingleslemmy.caAmuletta@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-212 hours agoSlate shingle roofs used to be the norm.
minus-squareAmuletta@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 hours agoNot in this part of the world though.
minus-squarebillwashere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoBut slate is flat and can be overlapped. How would this even work?
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoyou see this all over Europe with clay roofs, they put large rocks to weigh down the tiles to prevent winds from lifting them. But, usually just around the edges of the roof.
minus-squarebillwashere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoOk that makes way more sense.
Slate shingle roofs used to be the norm.
Not in this part of the world though.
But slate is flat and can be overlapped. How would this even work?
you see this all over Europe with clay roofs, they put large rocks to weigh down the tiles to prevent winds from lifting them. But, usually just around the edges of the roof.
Ok that makes way more sense.