Talk:Asphalt shingle

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When did the manufacture of 40 and 50 year asphalt shingles begin? I believe laminated (i.e., 30 year) shingles gained popularity in the early 1990s. What are the dimensions of a standard American asphalt shingle? The dimensions of a laminated shingle is 39-3/4" x 13-1/4"--Jmiller4369 (talk) 01:04, 12 November 2008 (UTC) I give this article A+++ good job wikipedia keep it up. 74.212.59.147 23:54, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Are Asphalt Shingles used often outside of the US & Canada? How frequently are they used in India and Australia?

Asphalt shingles are used predominantly in the US& Canada. They have been shipped to Asutralia, now and again, and are just getting some entry into India at this time. Shipping costs from the US & Canada have kept them in N. America until recent times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.74.53.196 (talk) 22:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Asphalt shingle flashpoint
Has either independent global warming science or petroleum industry science spoken to any risk from the sun's elevated heat or UV causing roofing shingles to potentially ignite?ITOB 12:41, 26 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Insidetheoutsidebox (talk • contribs)

Article under assault from shingle sellers
It looks like the Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association (ARMA) doesn't like all this "negative" information being discussed about the products they sell, so this article is in their sights to whittle away all the "un-positive" information related to aging and failure.

Finding cites for all the material discussed in here should not be too hard, but continued attempts at suppressing/deleting stuff that doesn't make good ad copy will likely continue for the forseeable future..

DMahalko (talk) 20:21, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Units
Lots of imperial units. I noticed because "Shingles should not be applied when temperatures are under 50 degrees", which is a Death Valley celcius temperature without the unit. Metrification, or at least unit labels. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.72.170.60 (talk) 06:31, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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Inventor of Asphalt shingle
It may be interesting to the readers to know the inventor of the asphalt shingle: In 1903, Henry Reynolds – a roofing contractor from Grand Rapids, Michigan who has been credited with the invention of the roofing shingle – began cutting asphalt saturated rolls that had been surfaced with stone into individual “shingles.” http://asphaltmagazine.com/roofing-101/ CICorporation (talk) 04:45, 25 January 2020 (UTC)