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 [...]
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Discover a permanent solution to low-slope roof leaks on shed dormers and other flat roofs. Many homes in New England have shed dormers, which are build to use otherwise unusable space in the attic, and greatly expand square footage of the home, without huge expenses of building an addition. However, the way these shed dormers [...]
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It is no secret that a metal roof, although designed to last a lifetime, is only as good as its installers. Additionally, metal roofing is a completely different animal than asphalt shingle roofs, cedar shake or even slate roofing, and to be able to install a metal roof correctly, you need a professionally trained metal [...]
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We have not updated our roof project profiles in a while, but now since we started using a blog, it became much easier. This is one the first in a series of projects we’ve completed in the last 12 months, that never made it to our website. We start this series with a flat roof [...]
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Cool Roofs provide financial and environmental benefits and long-lasting protection from the weather. Roofing represents only 3% of construction costs. Yet, many builders, architects / specifiers, roofing contractors and even home / building owners look to reduce their total construction and/or renovation costs, and all to often they find these savings in roofing. This cost [...]
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