Bill,

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:55:11 -0700, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> 
> On Sep 19, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
> 
> > Why use shingles at all?
> 
> Much of the US seems to mandate a particular appearance of roof
> for ... appearances sake.  This includes things like requiring
> (flammable) cedar shingles in housing developments in hot and dry
> southwest, where it's not uncommon for house fires to start from
> sparks landing on the roof.

I don't suppose there's much slate around there - looks rather like shingles, and never been known to catch fire!  :-)

Howcome nobody's developed something that looks like cedar (which I seem to remember has a high natural oil content) but doesn't burn?


Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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