[TheForge] OT - Asphalt shingle rot? (Lichen)

[Bruce Freeman]

Yeah, the odd thing here is this is an UNshaded asphalt shingle roof.
It IS the northern exposure, but the slope of the roof is not so great
as to make it shaded.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
> In Nova Scotia, almost anything that is mostly shaded and sheltered
> and doesn't move around grows lichen. Lichen on a roof is common in
> older houses with large, overhanging shade trees.
>
> There's way more lichen (of several kinds) in the woods here that I
> ever saw anywhere in New England with the exception of some old forest
> in the White Mountains of NH that the 19th c. lumber barons couldn't
> reach.
>
>
> FWIW,
> - Mike
>
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Bruce
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