Got more questions on Roofs? For your own personal guided tour – at the County level – through our data on Roofing Material, Roofing Underlayment, and everything else you want to know about Roofs, contact me. Looking forward, a recent Home Innovation study reported that builders, on average, will begin using trusses more often than they currently do, due to the increasing labor shortage, so the outlook for truss fabricator remains good. Aided by the housing market rebound, trusses now comprise more than 70 percent of the roof structural material market. Due to the economic conditions, so many truss shops closed that builders found themselves returning to rafters just to get their homes built. However, when the housing market tanked in the mid-2000’s, rafter framing briefly regained the dominant position. In roof structures, trusses had long been the most popular type of roof framing in new homes. Topping off the sheathing, our Builder and Consumer Practices Studies reported in 2018 that synthetic underlayment is now just at a little less than half the market and growing at the expense of asphalt felt while self-adhering is about 10% of all roofing underlayment installed. ZIP System® now represents about 4 percent of new home roof sheathing. ![]() ![]() And thicker roof sheathing – 3/4" and 5/8" – are being used more, replacing the 7/16" and 1/2" thicknesses traditionally used. OSB remains the dominant type while plywood trails in a distant second. What Else is Happening to Roofs?īeneath the roofing, virtually all new residential roofs have wood-based panel sheathing. Average slope of roofs on new homes has remained at about the same – but declined slightly in the past decade. Plastic composites, while making some gains in the past few years, still represent a small segment total roofing installations. The once-popular wood shingle roof market has suffered a major decline in the wake of improved durability, greater attractiveness, and lower cost of its primary competitor-architectural asphalt shingles. Also underway is a decline in the popularity of traditional clay and cement tile roofs. Stamped metal tile represents only a small fraction of metal roofing on homes. Most are painted steel that have standing seams or vertical ribs. Other trends worth mentioning include – metal roofing continues to become more popular, not only as accents over front porches and bay windows, but as full-house replacements. The appeal of three-tab shingles is that they are suitable for most housing types, they are inexpensive, and they blend into the surrounding neighborhood as existing homes are most likely to have 3-tab shingles. For roofing replacements, 3-tab asphalt shingles are still the most popular – briefly resurging in popularity in the uncertainty of the mid-2000’s housing market collapse (see chart above) – but declining again after home values begin rebounding. In new homes, most builders opt for architectural asphalt shingles. Source: Home Innovation's Annual Consumer Practices ReportsĪsphalt shingles are used in more than 80 percent of home roofing and re-roofing projects in the United States. ![]() Only 3 percent stated they wanted to improve the appearance of their house, and 2 percent claimed a pre-mature failure. About one-third replaced their roof because of leaking one third because of storm damage and, one quarter anticipated roof failure in the near future due to a deteriorating roof. On average, the age of the existing roofing in full replacement was slightly more than 19 years. The reports also concluded that nearly 85% of total residential roofing volume is installed on existing homes as either a full or partial replacement of existing material. Based on Home Innovation’s Annual Builder and Consumer Practices Reports, about 17.5 billion square feet of it was installed on homes last year. SeptemRoofing Market Trends? We’ve Got You Covered (and Re-covered)īy: Ed Hudson, Market Research Director, Home Innovation Research Labs
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