04-19-2011, 06:31 PM
Paul F. wrote:
[quote=davester]
[quote=Paul F.]
Slate!
You'll need a second mortgage to afford it... but you'll be the only guy on your block with a slate roof! :-)
...and it will make an exciting noise as the entire roof flies one way and the house goes another way during the next earthquake.
Yeah! That'd be cool! ;-)
(part of that second mortgage would be for structural upgrades to hold up a bunch of slabs of rock on your roof....)
All joking aside, slate seems to be historically accurate for a lot of colonial homes. Pick a slate color of asphalt architectural shingles if you want to achieve that. We did our roof last year, and since the house originally had a shake roof, we went with "weathered wood".