They are starting to become popular on residential homes - on porches, where they keep replacing roofs. Phaneuf says that 60 percent of his work is installing the traditional asphalt shingle seen on most homes. Color choices are usually in natural shades of beige, brown, green, gray or black. Most shingles contain dabs of adhesive across each strip just above the cutout tabs. When the adhesive is softened by the heat of the sun, it seals down the tabs over the overlapping shingles.
Asphalt shingles are subject to fire started by falling embers.
It still has the 'mineral' surface of a three-tab, but it has the depth of a cedar shake roof. It's not just flat. After the regular asphalt three-tab shingle, he says he sells more architectural shingles than anything else. The cedar shingle and shake is without doubt the most traditional roofing material and one of the oldest in history. Shingles are cut in a factory with a bandsaw and they are smooth with a uniform thickness.