I've done a couple of copper roofs. Yup, the price has skyrocketed. A few years ago I used to buy copper sheet for a little over $2.10 a lb, for a while the price had tripled. Recently, it's still over $5 in price today. That's just for flat sheet material. Your "on the roof" cost will be substantially more. Standing seam, I bend my own panels on a brake. I've done soldered flat roofs too. But I've never used a manufactured "copper shingle".

We looked at LP Smartside, NuCedar, Certainteed plastic, Hardie, another fiber cement that is quite thick (can't recall the name right now). and of course real cedar. You name it..I researched it and probably have the samples in my garage, lol. I wanted real cedar shingles from the start and finally convinced dh and our builder. Our builder warned us about woodpeckers, and other issues. So hoping for the best. Taking a risk I know but none of the products seemed perfect. we went with Cabot's solid stain, even though it wasn't quite the look I wanted. I would have rather had semi-transparent. But the solid stain should not need upkeep quite as soon. good luck!

To be clear, my issue is not about finding a place to get the shingles shot, nor is it about getting and affording either flu or pneumonia shots. Hubs can get flu and pneumonia free through Medicare. He has the 121 page Medicare coverage booklet, along with supplemental insurance that he purchased from the company his son work for. I have suggested he talk to an insurance broker as he is now shopping around for better supplemental coverage. But honestly, i think better coverage will probably come with a higher price tag, so there ya go. My Dad has excellent supplemental coverage and is paying around 1K per month for it . . . no way around it, on the commercial market, when you are old, you are expensive to insure . . . As for the cost of the shingles shot, the health department quoted is $160 per shot, with a $30 discount per shot due to hubs prescription discount card. That's still $260 total. Thanks for the heads up about the insurance billing issues Sea Sea! Hard to say how this is going to play out. As I mentioned, my doctor was MIA all through September due to changing the location of her practice. So I don't know if she offers the shingles shot, but I doubt it. That's one of the reasons I have been searching for a new doctor, another was wanting one closer to home. I thought I had found one, but now that one up and quit. That PA issue worries me, as that was what was offered at the new practice I chose. The office seemed very well organized, but the actual doctor is only there two days a week, the rest of the time you see a PA or nurse practitioner. But my other doctor wasn't easy to get in to see either, so at this point it's kind of a toss up . . . I live in a poor rural area, few good local options. All our local hospitals are hanging by a thread as it is . . . The information on how my insurance will pay for the shingles shot comes directly from my insurance company. They sent me an e-mail response to my inquiry. They wrote that they would cover 100% but that if I went to a pharmacy I would have to pay and submit a reimbursement form. They didn't say that the pharmacy could bill them, so I don't know. I don't want to wait any longer. The repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act is actively ongoing, who knows how long these regulations that enforce insurance companies paying for preventative vaccinations will stand. They are tenuous at best. Seems like our postal service is also tenuous as far as the reimbursement paperwork too. Russian roulette seems like the new game in town for health care.

Hello: I own a 1300 square ft 1857 cape home in Andover, MA. I would like to replace the dated yellow vinyl siding with Nu Cedar shingle-look siding and interested in finding an authorized contractor/installer in MA or Southern NH for this particular product. Thank you for any suggestions.