Just wondering why shingles are used if you must replaced your roof every 15 years?
I lived in the Virgin Islands before moving here and we have no roofs with shingles, anywhere.
I've got a wood roof with a elastomeric coating on my home there.
The roof is 69 years old.
I pressure wash (annually to keep clean as we collect rain water from our roofs to supply our cisterns with water) and reapply the elastomeric coating every 5-6 years. Other homes have metal sheeting, cement roofs or clay tiles for their roofs but you won't find a single home on our islands with shingles.
We had both Hurricanes, Irma and Maria, go directly over the VI in 2017 creating major damages.
My roof stayed on, luckily, as not many did, but all it needed was pressure washing and reapplying the coating.
The VI climate is similar, we have rainy and dry seasons, many tropical storms, high wind conditions.
Why are shingle roofs so popular and widely used in FL?
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