There was a time when no self-respecting South African home owner would even have considered the option of roof sheets, roof sheets were something that one only found in townships and similar informal settlements, and they were definitely not welcome in the burbs, where neighbourhood status still is everything. House wives would rather be dragged naked across a field of broken glass before they allowed their next door neighbours to have any legitimate disparaging thoughts about them. Roof sheets were just not an option.
Well those days are officially over and roof sheets are as common inn the burbs as picket fences were once across Middle America. Roof sheets are now made in so many different materials that they are barely even recognisable as roof sheets and they are so far from being the eyesore they once were. Roof sheets are in fact being touted as one of the solutions to the green crisis that the world is currently facing and people all over the world are being told to move to roof sheets as an alternative to the more conventional tiles, because the carbon imprint which is attached to the making of roof sheets is far lower than that of tiles.
Roof sheets are often made by recycling other materials and this is always going to be the better option for the world. South Africans are still coming to terms with the whole recycling idea but hopefully they will begin to embrace it because it is the only way human being are going to assure their continued presence on this planet people like to call home.
Roof sheets are just the beginning of the new approach to building, and while these greener options are not always cheaper, governments are realising the impact on the climate and are trying to get people to make the move to the greener path by subsidising the production and distribution of things like roof sheets. So hopefully this trend of government subsidies will spread to the southern parts of Africa where industrialisation is increasing at a scary rate and climate change is no longer just the bogey man that hippies scare their kids with.