There are a lot of people in the Houston area who are now having to replace their roof because of damage sustained during hurricane Ike, myself included.

I wanted to tell you about a product that you may not be familiar with called Ondura. I am not paid to endorse their product. I truly believe that they have a product that is superior to the old composition/asphalt shingles.

As you can see in this picture of my newly built chicken coop, the Ondura roof survived the hurricane whereas my asphalt shingled roof on my home did not.

The left picture was taken the day after hurricane Ike passed through and yes my yard flooded. The right picture was taking during the building of the coop back in July.

Since we are now having to replace the roof on our house anyway, we will be replacing it with Ondura to match the chicken coop.

The good thing about Ondura is that it's easy to install, you don't have to tear off the old roof if you don't want to (which makes it better on the environment because you aren't filling landfills with your old shingles) because Ondura can be installed over an existing shingled roof, it comes in many colors and can also be painted with any color, it's made from 50% of post-consumer recycled materials (which it makes it environmentally friendly), it comes with a lifetime limited warranty, it's not expensive and any DIYer can install it with no special tools needed.

Businesses have already caught on to this trend. This product has been around for over 40 years. I don't know why it isn't more popular in the residential areas. I can only guess it is because people have gotten so used to composition shingles that they don't look into other options.

Well you do have other options and this one is worth looking into.

You can read more about Ondura by visiting their website at...

http://www.ondura.com/

This is a house with an Ondura roof.