The Inverness Forest Association Board of Directors has been researching alternative roof materials for quite a while and has decided that there has been significant improvements recently in materials and manufacturing techniques. It now makes sense to expand the ACC regulations by providing at least one additional choice to cedar shakes.
To that end, board members have made trips to Avenel to see several different alternative roof materials on Avenel houses. Also the board and members of the ACC met earlier this month with representatives of Da Vinci and EcoStar, two prominent manufacturers of alternative roofing materials. We examined many different samples and borrowed some of them to see their appearance in bright sunlight. Ultimately the board whittled the choices down to three.
At the August 13th meeting the board voted on these three alternatives to cedar shakes. The Enviroshake material was not approved nor were the two variations of the Eco Star product. The board did approve the Da Vinci material in the "Autumn Blend" color. This material comes in both a uniform nine inch width and in multi-width tiles. Both of these choices were approved.
The picture above, which I took today, is of the Da Vinci product on an Avenel roof. The picture below is a closeup of that roof. One of the reasons the Da Vinci product was approved was because the tiles show considerably more variation in both color and texture than the Enviroshake or Eco Star roof materials.
Harvey
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