Ondura corragated asphalt roofing sheets

Was at Menards today looking at roofing , and seen these corrugated asphalt sheets , Anyone use these sheets on a house or barn ? Seems like a good thing with lifetime warrenty

I had them on my roof, worked great, have to be careful so you don't pound the nails thru them. had them on my roof...well the backside of the house for many years. use their nails. they were torn off and discarded when the new roof was installed. nothing leaked, but the stockholders thought the roof should be replaced. PffffT!

I think they are popular in England but I don't know if they would be better then steel roofing, hard to beat a roof that last's 50+ years.

I put some on a lady's porch roof a few years back.  Never could get the nails to stop leaking due to the fact of how they want you to nail them, and how our weather is with the expansion and contraction with temp changes.

Edited by Dave in PA - 31 Mar 2019 at 6:50am

lentsch wrote: Didn't some company try this about 25 or 30 years ago and it was a total failure? called Onduline? Never did understand "lifetime warranty". Couple of my neighbors got hung with some crap roofing-looked like asphalt coated cardboard.

Googled "Ondura reviews". Seems to be mixed opinions, but the way it's described it looks like the same stuff neighbors had that got soft in the heat and brittle in the cold and pretty much self destructed in a short period of time. I would proceed with caution.

Edited by lentsch - 31 Mar 2019 at 3:35pm

When I lived in upper Michigan I realy loved the copper shingled houses. Last time I was back most of them were gone reshingled in asphalt. Really took the old character out of the houses. My house is the only thing left with shingles it'll get steel soon it's almost 20 years old and looks it.

Had little shed on the ranch that in my day was for 4h steers or a extra horse not in the main herd. Had tin roof that dad got durning WW2. As light a gage of metal as I have seen as corrugated roof,but coated with tar. The tar dried and cracked and chipped. In about 60 years tar is long gone. But you use what you could find,and no idea how expensive it was. Enough bulls and horses rubbed on the whole shed gave up on it some years ago. But over 50 years for a make do material, not to bad.

Edited by Ray54 - 31 Mar 2019 at 8:50pm

Steel skinned our roof, was a system for houses. Similar to barn tin today but required a 3/4" underlayment and a roofing moisture barrier called Titanium paper no purlins.

So DMiller did you screw it directly into the plywood or the stuff they use particle board stuff? And is the shingles still on or did you strip them off ?

I heard somewhere that a "Lifetime warranty" is 7 years, don't know if that is true or not but if so I'm on my 10th lifetime!

Ondura is a corrugated bitumen sheet for roofing trim, which is produced by saturating organic fibers with high-quality bitumen under high pressure and temperature. The strength of the boards is increased by the wavy profile of a special geometric shape. When restoring my lady's roof, I turned to an Indianapolis roof contractor. These experts recommended I use this material because it is very strong, withstands the load, and at the same time, is very beautiful. They just did their job quickly and efficiently. I am sure that the work they have done will last for many years.


Edited by touriafuji - 08 Nov 2022 at 8:41am

Gottcha Dave , thanks