Choosing a roofing material for your home can be can be a really tough decision. It’s best to at least know what all your options are so you can choose what works best for you.
1. Baked Clay Tiles: extremely solid, heavy tiles with a long lifespan
2. Plain Tiles: are flat without ripples
3. Concrete Tiles: less expensive than baked tiles and have more variations and colours
4. Natural Slate: expensive but looks great and lasts a long time
5. Artificial Slate: is made from fibre cement
6. Metal Tile Sheets: light-weight sheets of steel or aluminium with the look of roof tiles
7. Zinc Slates: looks like natural slate but slightly bigger
8. Zinc, Aluminium or Copper Strips: from a patina over time that gives a nice colour and longer lifespan
9. Corrugated Sheets: profiled, double compressed fibre cement sheets
10. Shingles: bituminous material which contains fiberglass that is typically used on garden houses and extensions
11. Bitumen Roof Shingle: light-weight imitation of slates in bitumen
12. Reed: a very expensive roofing material now used mainly for bigger villas, outbuildings or prestige projects with excellent insulating properties