Mold Resistant Roof Shingles

Tim carter roof shingles with copper tips.

Mold resistant roof shingles.

Watch roof algae and moss video below. Look at your shingles in the daylight against your siding before you make any final decisions. Read the roofing ripoff book to get the full story. But this really only holds up within the first two years it s completely prorated out within a two year period.

Darker colored shingles absorb heat and light while lighter colors reflect it. Roof shingles with copper algae resistant outdoor roofing text. Copper strips at the top are the best way to stop black algae stains see below. Help keep your roof looking like new with the protection of owens corning streakguard algae resistance protection.

Our algae resistant shingles carry a limited warranty against contamination from blue green algae during the first 10 or 15 years depending on the product. Algae fighting has come of age with stainguard time release technology certain metal ions like copper and zinc can help reduce algae growth. Discuss this option with your roofer when it s time to replace the roof. The good news is that gloeocapsa magma is both treatable and with the right shingle technology preventable.

Certainteed warrants that algae resistant shingles will remain free from blue green algae during this period and will pay without proration the reasonable cost to replace or clean the affected shingles. Chemically treated roof shingles are available from several asphalt roofing manufacturers who offer these products which are resistant to moss lichens or algae growth on roofs. Manufacturers today are selling shingles that are called fungus resistant and algae resistant. The premade ones are much quicker and probably neater looking.

New asphalt roof shingles are available with an inclusion of chemicals that resist moss lichens algae and even fungal growth. You can cut strips of zinc flashing copper and lead work too and slide them under a course of roof shingles to kill lichen and moss growing there or you could just buy these premade strips from shingle shield. For more than 30 years we ve continued to advance our technologies to keep roofs beautiful and virtually maintenance free.