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   Piffin | Apr 06, 2007 08:11pm | #1

   http://www.carlonroofs.com/owenscorning-shingles.htm
   scroll down to see harbour blue.

   If you were to search trhe web, use terms like pewter and grey also. Some shingles in those names have a bluish cast to them.

   You can paint shingles tooto get what you want. I have rarely seen blue shingles and I don't think I've ever laid any.

   Another thing to keep in mind - not every colour is available in every part of the country so checking with your local suppliers is important.

   This is likely to be a special order that will take extra time, and be sure to figure right and order enough. A second special order will be more expensive and colour lots will likely not match.

    

    

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   Hazlett | Apr 06, 2007 09:53pm | #2

    both Elk and Certainteed have blue ,dimensional shingles---and probably other  companies  as well.

    I think i have personally installed them twice for customers in 20 years or so---they are not real popular in akron, Ohio------but i have seen them plenty of times ocean front on vacation---like the outer banks of North Carolina.

   stephen

3. 
   JonE | Apr 06, 2007 11:02pm | #3

   When the company I used to work for built McDonald's restaurants, we used to PAINT the shingles red.  Somehow it holds up, but I doubt you'd want to go that route.

    

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   Hazlett | Apr 06, 2007 11:34pm | #5

    Jon--in theory i suppose you could paint the shingles. several years ago I toured a Owens corning shingle plant in Medina Ohio--and was informed that each granule on a shingle is individually coated with Sherwin Williams  Paint. they have these silos adjacent to the plant filled with a variety of different colored granules

   stephen

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   Matt | Apr 06, 2007 11:42pm | #6

   Wow - that must a boring job - painting all those little granules. ;-)

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   Hazlett | Apr 07, 2007 12:15am | #7

    hey-at least they get to work in colors---think of the poor guy who has to engrave the letter "B" on all those Bayer asprin??????

   stephen

4. 
   MikeSmith | Apr 06, 2007 11:26pm | #4

   certainteed has some nice blues...  we did a Hatteras roof in blue

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