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This local house has rocks on the roof instead of shingles (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 week ago by Amuletta@lemmy.ca to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But slate is flat and can be overlapped. How would this even work?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you see this all over Europe with clay roofs, they put large rocks to weigh down the tiles to prevent winds from lifting them. But, usually just around the edges of the roof.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ok that makes way more sense.