Ok I’m back. Last year I posted some questions about alternate ways to lay out 3 tab shingles. Well I am glad to say the project worked out well.
Well it is time to do the Garage roof. I want to do something a little differant, that would be appropriate for a garage built in the 1930’s. My area is full of old houses, and I have occaisionally seen what I call a “Fish Scale” roof. I like the effect.
I have been told that these “Fish Scale” roofs were made out of Asbestos, simular to the Asbestos siding so popular in the 50’s and 60’s tract houses. I have been told that, they are no longer made.
That is until I saw a garage near my work. I talked to the homeowner, and the roof was done by a previous owner. I also was able to inspect the roof up close. His “fish scales” appear to be made out of asphalt rool roofing. I was able to reach up and touch them, these are defitly mineral roll of some sort.
I have no idea if these are available pre-cut, or if some poor fool cut them out of a 3 foot wide rool of mineral roof.
I have 4 rolls of 3 foot wide roll roof that I bought years ago when “Builder’s Square” went out of business. I am tempted to be a “poor fool” and cut out some fish scales. I would need a pattern. If I can find the shingles pre-cut, I may just use the roll roof as underlayment.
SO… Does anyone out there recognize these fish scale shingles? I am just north of Philadelphia, and I am guessing the shingles in this picture are at least 10 years old.
If I have to go the cutting route, does anyone know where I can get a pattern? It seems that someone has “Google bombed” all of the web search engines, so that searching for “Fish scales” + “Roofing Shingles” only finds web sites selling Viagra. Either that, of the disease called “shingles”.