11/17/2021
Every so often, shingle manufacturers change the “dye lot” (the specific ratio and mixture of individual colors) of a particular “shingle color” (such as ‘Weathered Wood’). Similarly, different manufacturing facilities, belonging to the same company, use slightly different dye lots as well. This is why the color ‘Slate’ (shown below), manufactured this year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama plant… will very likely look radically different from that same color, made at that same plant, 5 years ago… or next to a ‘Slate’colored shingle, made this year at a plant in Dallas,Texas.
Every manufacturing facility - across all shingle manufacturers - records the location where the shingle was made, the date of manufacture and the specific dye lot used. All of this is clearly indicated on every bundle of shingles but a low end roofer either doesn’t know or doesn’t care, so long as all the packages have the same “brand color” color listed. Imagine believing that every can of blue labeled paint is exactly the same color blue. Of course you know better but does your roofer?
Ask your roofer if he or she knows what a “dye lot” is and very specifically ask them why this is important…
… and if they hesitate even slightly: Find a new roofer. Here’s why 👇🏽
