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  • Product Monitor: Synthetic Strength
  • PROSALES Magazine (6/13/2007)
  • For decades, a roofing underlayment was just an asphalt-saturated paper, or "felt." Today, contractors have a broader selection of options, as the underlayment category has evolved to include synthetic and hybrid products that are enticing them with performance and installation benefits.
  • Roof Redux
  • REMODELING Magazine (6/1/2007)
  • A few years ago, Ann Marzano's home needed a new roof. Environmentally conscious, she wanted to avoid asphalt or cedar, but her local homeowner's association wouldn't allow metal. After researching alternatives, she came up with synthetic slate, a durable rubber composite made mostly from recycled tires that provided the traditional look her NIMBY neighbors demanded.
  • Products Roundup
  • REPLACEMENT CONTRACTOR Magazine (5/1/2007)
  • The latest products for roofing, siding, window and decking pros.
  • Construction Products Review: Synthetic Underlayments
  • BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (1/21/2006)
  • In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, Grace Construction Products' residential business director Larry Shapiro says he began to hear from distributors that pros were ordering his company's synthetic underlayments rather than the standard protective blue tarps to cover damaged roofs.

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