For someone who has spent time perched on a roof with a shingling hatchet or nail gun in their hand, it might be second nature to check out the tops of buildings while tooling around town.
Besides a chance to assess the relative health of all those roofs, compare the merits of gables and mansards and cringe at the heights and pitches involved, there is also the matter of materials.
Even a simple afternoon's walk in the neighborhoods around the city center turns up a wide variety: ceramic tiles, corrugated steel, concrete tile, wood shakes, wood shingles, beaten gold, copper-tone metal, actual copper, asphalt shingles - all in varying states of age and condition.
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