Term “green” 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 [...]

Forewords: If you are a building inspector / official, please try to understand that this rant from contractors point of view… 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 – right? They are there [...]

After 3 days of rain, we finally got some decent weather on monday. Although it was very warm for December, it was quiet windy, which slowed us down. Never-the-less, we were able to get a lot  of work done, including tearing of some old aluminum shingles/shakes, changing some plywood and of course making the roof  [...]

On Tuesday we have finally started replacing a metal roof on the IHOP restaurant in Brighton, MA – near the Harvard stadium. This will be a big project, involving replacement of all the plywood and fixing rotted wood where necessary.
Since Tuesday night, it’s been raining non stop for 3 days, yet, we had enough time [...]