The largest (6000 m²)
wooden shingle roof
in Europe: Zakopane, Poland

Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. Image File history File links The largest wooden shingle roof (6000 m²) in Europe: Zakopane, Poland Author: Jadwiga File links The following pages link to this file: Tile ... Image File history File links The largest wooden shingle roof (6000 m²) in Europe: Zakopane, Poland Author: Jadwiga File links The following pages link to this file: Tile ... Zakopane - Krupowki street (main high street) Zakopane - Krupowki street church Zakopane - view from Gubalowka Hill over Zakopane (Tatra mountains in background) Zakopane - Gubalowka Hill Funicular entrance Zakopane - Gubalowka Hill Funicular Zakopane - Gubalowka Hill ski run Zakopane - Gubalowka Hill a nursery ski run Zakopane (pronounce: [zakopanε]) is a town in...

Shingles have been made of variouse materials such as wood (wood shingle), bitumen-soaked paper covered with aggregate (asphalt shingle) or ceramic. Due to increased fire hazard, wood shingles have become less common than asphalt or ceramic shingles. A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood derives from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ... Because trees were plentiful from the earliest days of settlement of North America, the use of wood for all aspects of construction is not surprising. ... Bitumen Bitumen is a category of organic liquids that are highly viscous, black, sticky and wholly soluble in carbon disulfide. ... A Asphalt Shingle is a type of roof shingle. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ...

Shingles are laid from the bottom edge of the roof up, each row overlapping the previous one by about half its length. At the roof ridge, there is a cap.

Roofing slate is applied in a similar pattern, and is sometimes called 'slate shingle'. Slate Slate is a fine-grained, homogeneous, metamorphic rock which was derived from an original sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. ...

See also

• tile