Recently we finished installing an aluminum standing seam metal on a residential home in Wayland, Massachusetts. The roof is made of .032 Aluminum, coated with grey finish Kynar 500 coating. It is a 1.5″ snap-lock standing seam, attached with stainless steel clips and wood screws. Also, as you can see, there is a rail snow [...]

When a flat roof begins to leak, repairing it usually will get you about 3 months, after which it will leak again. This is especially true for roofs such as built-up tar and gravel, rolled asphalt or modified bitumen, because these roofs degrade with time, and start to leak because of material failure, seam adhesive [...]

If you are a building owner, facility mananger or even a home owner with a flat roof that leaks, and you are interested in or got a bid from a roofing contractor to install a new flat roofing system called TPO (Thermo-plastic olefin), this is a must-read article for you, because you will not find this [...]

Rubber roofing is a popular choice for low slope and flat roof construction, because relatively inexpensive, and “does not require any special training” on the part of roofing contractor, to be able to offer it to the customer and install. Do understand  that actual installation of rubber roofs is somewhat complicated and requires experience with [...]