The Latest Word on Green Roofing Products from Recycled Tires
If you’re like an increasing number of folks today then you for sure continually have your eyes, and ears open for new ways to shave down your carbon footprint. Just the same, if you’re like most people today it’s also only in recent years that you have begun to take more critical look at the materials that go into building, and maintaining a home.
Of course it takes a heck of a lot of energy to keep a home comfortable inside, so things like insulation are definitely important. However, you would be amazed to learn just how much energy goes into the actual making of the things that your home is built from, and because a roof can be torn off many times over the life of a building it only makes sense that they would be the first place to focus.
Each time a roof is replaced, another chunk of vital landfill space is taken up burying vital natural resources that took vast amount of energy to mine, and manufacture. That is unless the roofing materials that were used to lay down the roof in the first place are recyclable. Or; better yet, if the roofing system was made from recycled materials that can be recycled again, and again.
Now my all time personal favorite out of all the new green roofing systems and products, are the tiles, and shingles that are made from used car, and truck tires. These new eco-friendly shingles, and tiles look absolutely amazing and they’re all just one more solution to the problem that used tires have been for far too long. It’s about time too!
First the tread pattern is completely shaved off the old used tires. Then the next step is they’re cut up into chunks that are roughly the size of cedar shingles. Then step three, is they’re sent through a shaping, and forming process that leaves what was once chunks of used tires looking like a actual shingles, once they have been colored. They even end up with wood grain, and a rough “wood-like” surface.
What many homeowners find so surprising is that rubber shingles actually have a Class A fire rating which makes them far safer than wood. Still yet, these amazing shingles last years, and even decades longer than a standard wood shingle that “atmosphere cleaning” trees have to be cut down for. Also because they last longer, they tend to not leak, or require the level of maintenance of a wood shingle roof.
I also find it pleasantly ironic that slate tiles which are possibly the most expensive roof you can buy are now being made from recycled tires as well and believe it or not these new faux slate rubber tiles duplicate the look of the genuine product down to the most finite details. They’re cheaper, lighter ,and in fact better because they’re green.
Also because rubber is so much lighter than stone, or concrete these now eco-friendly roofing products that even include colored faux cement flat tiles can be installed on homes that aren’t engineered for heavy roofs. What this means is that you own a home that was built to hold a light composition shingle roof, you now have far more options when it comes time to replace the one that’s on it.
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