This is the third volume of The Rehab Guide, a series of nine guidebooks to inform the design and construction industry of state-of-the-art materials and innovative practices in housing rehabilitation. The Rehab Guide focuses on building technology, materials, components, and techniques rather than projects such as adding a new room. Each volume features breakthrough materials, labor-saving tools, and cost-cutting practices.

Entitled The Rehab Guide: Roofs, the third volume, was developed as a part of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH). It covers the major roofing systems as well as protective strategies, energy and air filtration issues, roofing materials, and gutters and downspouts. It uses drawings and photographs to supplement written descriptions of several components of the rehabilitation of roofs, including the following items:

• Roof design.
• Sheathing and flashing.
• Underlayments and moisture barriers.
• Wood shingles and shakes and asphalt shingles.
• Low-slope and metal roofing.
• Slate.
• Clay, concrete, fiber-cement, and composite tile.
• Gutter and leader systems.

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