Modern fire codes now require all roofing to be fireproof. Because of these fire codes, many plastic, asphalt, metal, or other engineered roofing is being designed to look like nonfireproof materials like wood to provide the design element but still meet restrictions.
What are Solatubes? Solatubes are roof-mounted devices designed to efficiently collect sunlight and reflect it down a tube into your home or office. Because they’re so compact and versatile, Solatubes can be installed in tight locations where traditional skylights won’t fit.
Metal roofing is a green option. Once installed, it helps save on energy costs, has a long useful life and most metals are also at least partially recycled. In fact, steel has an 88 percent recycling rate.
EPDM roof coatings are single ply, which makes it much simpler and easy to apply. This synthetic rubber roofing coating is a long-lasting solution to flat roofing issues, as its service life can last up to fifty years.
One of the reasons a Solatube daylighting system is able to achieve better lighting performance than a similar size skylight is because it doesn’t rely on a skylight well in which light is lost due to absorption into the drywall shaft. Rather, the light is efficiently transferred down the reflective tube and into the room.
Keeping debris off your roof goes a long way to protecting it. And trimming back tree branches that are hanging over will help prevent debris from accumulating on the roof.