green or blue. However, their color will fade over time due to sun exposure. The color and quality will look different depending on whether you choose architectural or three-tab shingles.

A contractor gave us a bid to replace our roof using something called architectural shingles instead of what the roof has now, three-tab shingles. Is that good advice? Yes. Architectural shingles ...

“Shingles have been a common roof solution for a long, long time,” says John Ike, a partner at the AD PRO Directory–listed architectural firm Ike Baker Velten in Oakland, California.