On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:50:27 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:

James Wilkinson wrote
Rod Speed wrote
James Wilkinson wrote
Tim Watts wrote
James Wilkinson wrote

I accidentally spotted some A5 sized pieces of roof felt/bitumen
(like we use on garages and sheds here in the UK) on an American
house, placed to look like tiles. Is that common over there and why?

I believe they are called asphalt shingles.

Wouldn't that leak?

Nope, trivially easy to overlap them so they don't.

How do you stop it running under the vertical divisions?

By overlapping them so there is the body of another shingle under that.

Ah. My imagination sux.

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