How can a homeowner benefit from installing a composition roof or a lightweight tile roof?

Tile roofs have been used in Europe for hundreds of years. Because of it's durability, tile is being used on over 70% of all residential structures in Europe. In the United States Concrete tiles are most popular in the Western sun belt region of the country. Extruded concrete tile is the only product that will insulate well in dessert type conditions like Las Vegas and New Mexico. It also has a wide popularity in hurricane zone areas of the United States like Hawaii and Florida. (Regions in the country that demand the maximum wind resistance with a roof assembly. Composition on the other hand was first developed in the 1800s in the form of roll roofing on farm houses. Composition eventually evolved in the 1930's as a 3 tab shingle design that became a popular economic solution to residential roofing. Today composition comes in a wide array of colors and designs. From an economic 30 year dimensional design, all the way to the rugged appearance and definition of wood shake, shingle and s ... more