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	<title>Cool Roofing Blog</title>
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	<description>Discover the benefits of Cool Roofing: Flat &#38; Metal roofs, Green roofs and Solar PV.</description>
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		<title>TPO roofing &#8211; Is it good or bad for roofing industry and building owners?</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/tpo-roofing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Flat Roofs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roof installation & repair]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the MRCA (Midwest Roofing Contractors Association) issued a warning bulletin regarding TPO roof failures caused by sun&#8217;s UV. You can read more about it on our original TPO Roofing page, as well as my commentary to this bulletin.
At the same time, major roofing distributors are shamelessly pushing TPO into the market and onto roofing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Roofing Contractors &#8211; How are we different from other roofers?</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/green-roofing-contractors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/green-roofing-contractors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Term &#8220;green&#8221; has become very popular during last decade and consequently overused, misused and abused. Anything and everything can be called green today, and to make money and to attract environmentally-conscious customers, people will call themselves and their products green, even when it is just a blatant lie to confuse uneducated consumers. Being a roofing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flat roof in Lowell, Massachusetts</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/roofing-lowell-ma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/roofing-lowell-ma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Roof installation & repair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool roofs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flat roofing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IB Roof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low slope roof]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Replacing old rubber roof with IB PVC roofing membrane in Lowell, MA.
In the beginning of Dec. 09 we installed a new IB PVC roof in Lowell, MA. This roof replaced an old EPDM rubber roof which was installed by a hack roofing contractor about two years ago, and was failing miserably, due to two factors: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubber roof repair in MA</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/rubber-roofing-ma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/rubber-roofing-ma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Flat Roofs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roof installation & repair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flat roofing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low slope roof]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/?p=628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, we specialize in installation of IB roofs &#8211; premium grade PVC flat roofing membranes, with fusion hot-air welded seams which ensure permanent lap bond, and as a result, leaks-free performance. At the same time if you have a rubber roof, which is in fairly decent shape, but has developed some leaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of Metal Roofing</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/pros-and-cons-of-metal-roofing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/pros-and-cons-of-metal-roofing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metal Roofing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/?p=609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Virtually, all roofing systems the industry has to offer present certain advantages of use, benefits and drawbacks. Metal roofing is not an exception and just like any other roofing system it offers benefits, and drawbacks in the parameters in which metal roofing is lacking, for instance initial cost of metal roofing is often sited as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Roofing &#8211; recent flat and metal roofs which we installed in MA.</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/massachusetts-roofing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/massachusetts-roofing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Flat Roofs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metal Roofing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roof installation & repair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar PV roofing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ice dam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[roof ventilation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/?p=557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts is our home state and here is where we install majority of our roofs (with Connecticut being in second place). In Massachusetts, roofing market is very different, depending on location, and although there are a lot more sloped roofs, not only in Mass., but in the rest of the country, we still install more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building inspectors vs. homeowners &amp; contractors (just a rant).</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/building-inspectors-vs-homeowners-and-contractors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/building-inspectors-vs-homeowners-and-contractors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Roof installation & repair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flat roofing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/?p=545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forewords: If you are a building inspector / official, please try to understand that this rant from contractors point of view&#8230; Or at least be objective and unbiased.

Pros and cons of building permits:
Why do we need building inspectors (and do we really need them)? Well, they are supposed to inspect &#8211; right? They are there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Solar Decathlon Home: solar PV / hot water panels and IB flat roof installation.</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/solar-panels-flat-roof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/solar-panels-flat-roof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Flat Roofs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
As I&#8217;m writing this, the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC is nearing its completion. Twenty teams from around the globe are competing to build the best Solar Home, judged in ten different categories, including: architecture, engineering, net metering, living comfort as well as others. This year, Massachusetts &#8211; home to some of the  greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and cons of roofing in the winter</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/winter-roof-installation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/winter-roof-installation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Flat Roofs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flat roofing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/?p=476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is October, and the cold weather is upon us. Now most homeowners who did not have a chance to replace their leaking roofs during spring and summer, want to get it done now &#8211; before he cold weather arrives. August, September and October are the busiest months of the year for a roofing contractor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubber roof replacement in Boston, MA</title>
		<link>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/rubber-roof-replacement-boston-ma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coolflatroof.com/flat-roofing-blog/rubber-roof-replacement-boston-ma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Flat Roofs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rubber roofing (EPDM) is not the best system for flat roofs, but in some instances, it just does not work right off the bet, and when it leaks, repairing such a roof is not even an option. In late July of 2009 we began work on one such roof in Roxbury , MA &#8211; a [...]]]></description>
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