Who doesn't want to do stuff, but not work. Shingling a house is one of the toughest jobs on earth, but what if your shingles were magnetic and they just stuck down to your steel roof, or properly coated metallic roof, huh? This could work in combination with my epoxy shingle idea. Take an sheet of magnets, which I have priced for reasonable wholesale consumption at around less than $1 per square foot and apply a coating of epoxy with the proper pigments to resist weathering and voila, you have a weatherproof magentic shingle that will attach itself. My layout for the printing is subject to change, but if the right overlaps are calculated then the printing would only have to be on one-half the magnet sheets in order to allow the suction properties of the magnet itself to do it's job. The printing can be decorative if necessary, but for testing purposes I am only going to be concerned with the suction strength of the magnet and the bonding properties of the epoxy, then the weathering factors can be taken into account.
Connecting magnetic shingles to a roof can be done by coating the roof with a light steel sheeting or paint that is heavily pigmented with steel. There is always the potential for rust, but we can deal with that later. The real deal is that anybody and literally throw up a roof and have it stick with Magnet Shingles, which may have to be renamed to MAGIC SHINGLES.
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