A primary difference between the two is in the name of standing seam.
Standing in roof tiles.
Most concrete tiles are lifted a little off of your roof and sit on wood batten strips creating a gap under the tiles for ventilation.
Most roofs do be they are tile shake or shingle.
Slate roof shingles that has the look of traditional roof tiles.
Interlock cedar shingle roof.
Our homage to the old world beauty of tile roofing.
Correctly walking upon and standing on a tile roof will help prevent you from leaving broken or cracked tiles behind.
Aluminum slate cedar shingles shake mediterranean tile and mechanical lock standing seam roof panels.
You want to walk on that overlapping part.
Now standing seam along with metal tiles and metal shingles are all growing in popularity for residential applications.
Standing seam metal roof details a metal roof is a roofing system made from metal pieces or tiles.
When you walk on your roof make sure you are walking on the reinforced part the lower third of the visible tile.
Tile has been used for thousands of years on roofs and has been made in a variety of ways including by hand.
New unique affordable and revolutionary metal roofing designed to provide the look of cedar shingles without the problems of rot and.
The disadvantages of metal roofs include the noise created from rain hitting the roof and in snowy areas the tendency of snow to easily fall off the roof and onto pedestrians or property.
It is a component of the building envelope.
In more recent times tile roofs are often synonymous with mission style homes in california french style country homes or homes in the mediterranean.