There is no comparison between new houses and 1’s 20 years old: old homes have older technology, old out of date floor plans, outdated looks, and more. Block construction is much better than stick built and SIP and solid concrete walls are even better.
I’ve had a slate roof on 1 of my houses in 2020, and each tile weighed 11 lbs, and 1” thick. The roof had 1x2’s on top of the normal roof that the tiles connected too, so you had a double roof so if a tile came loose or cracked, the normal roof had tar paper down so you wouldn’t have any leaks.
My parents had a metal roof over 50 years ago and it was also indestructible. Not sure how metal roofs would stand up to hurricane winds.
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