Both commercial buildings and residential homes have shingle roofs. Shingles can only be installed on a steep-sloped roof otherwise it will leak like crazy. Years ago when I grew up in the roofing industry 20-year 3-tab shingles were the most common due to the cheap cost of the materials. Architectural shingles cost way more and we would only install architectural shingles once in a blue moon and when we did the house would be very large, more like a mansion rather than a regular house. Back then architectural shingles were only packaged as five bundles to equal one hundred square feet.
Since the old days of roofing 20-year 3-tab shingles have become obsolete and they stopped being made because they were paper thin and do not hold up under high winds. Nowadays architectural shingles are the most commonly installed shingle. One reason is that the cost of 25 year 3-tab and 30 year or lifetime architectural shingles no longer have that much of a price difference. Architectural shingles hold up to high winds much better and now they are packaged as three bundles to equal one hundred square feet. One way the shingle manufacture did this was to change the size of the shingles. Also, many brands of shingles now have a wider nailing strip. The nailing strip is where you're supposed to nail into when you fasten the shingles to the roof.
Roofing shingles are on millions of homes across the United States and it is surely the most common roofing system in existence.
07/16/2023
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