Rubber roof membranes are often used on flat or low slope buildings including mobile homes or on unusually shaped roofs such as on a dome.
Residential rubber roof.
The national roofing contractors association provides an overview.
So all you need to be able to say to your roof contractor is you want an epdm rubber roof.
Contractors lack of knowledge and lack of training.
Look even commercial roofs are not immune to hack roofers and faulty materials like rubber roofing but in residential this is much more common.
Rubber roofing is likely to cost about 300 or 400 per square while asphalt shingles are usually less than 100 per square.
On two sides the roof abuts a parapet a short wall common around flat roofs as well as a wall for the third floor.
Most residential rubber roofs are made of single ply epdm synthetic rubber ethylene propylene diene monomer.
To get a quality rubber roof installed it usually has to be done by a commercial roofing company that specializes in flat roofing.
Here the rubber roof will need to run up the walls and glue to the sheathing.
Of all these membrane types epdm synthetic rubber is the most common single ply membrane roof material in both residential and commercial use.