The material comes in 3 x 33-foot rolls and you take a torch and actually melt it together. That's another commercial roof. 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.