If you have been meaning to get a roof looked at, quoted, or replaced this year and keep telling yourself there is still plenty of summer left, this is the week that assumption stops being…
Every few summers, the forecast on the Island stops looking like a normal July week and starts looking like something else. A ridge of high pressure parks over the coast, the daytime highs jump ten…
Nobody thinks about their gutters in August. They are dry, quiet, and doing nothing. Then the first real fall system rolls in off the water, the rain starts and does not stop for four days,…
Ask ten homeowners what roof maintenance means and you will get ten versions of the same answer: clean the gutters sometimes, and call someone when it leaks. That approach works right up until it does…
Ice damming gets talked about mostly in the context of colder interior and prairie climates, and a lot of Island homeowners assume it does not apply here. It does, just less frequently and usually tied…
After a bad storm, it is common to see unfamiliar trucks going door to door offering roofing quotes, often at prices that look appealing against an established local company. Some of these crews are legitimate.…
Ask most homeowners what their roof warranty covers and you get some version of, “whatever goes wrong, they will fix it.” That is rarely accurate. A new roof actually carries two separate warranties covering two…
When a roof leaks, the instinct is to assume the shingles failed somewhere in the open field, which is the big flat expanse of roof most people picture when they think of a reroof. In…
Most homeowners think about their roof from the outside—shingles, gutters, moss on the north slope. Few think about what is happening in the attic above their ceiling, and that is exactly where a lot of…
Get three roofing quotes on the same job and you will sometimes get three very different numbers. That gap makes people nervous, and it should, because a quote is only useful if you know what…