Roofing

We mentioned in our last post, and in many others before it, about ice dams and the damage they can cause to your roofing shingles and even inside your home. As spring approaches, the warmer temperatures and more frequent fluctuation between above and below freezing temperatures are a prime environment for ice dam formation. While...

Unless you have an interest in copper roofs, you might wonder why sometimes pictures of Old City Hall in Toronto shows it with either a shiny reddish-gold roof, a dull-finish dark brown roof, a beige roof, a grey roof or a green roof. No, the city is not squandering your tax dollars on constantly replacing...

Have you ever wondered why most larger buildings, like factories, schools, shopping centres and office buildings, have a flat roof, but houses have sloped roofs? The answer is one of pure practicality. The cost of building and maintaining a sloped roof for a large building would significantly increase construction and maintenance costs; enough to make...

While most homes in Toronto don’t have a flat roof (primarily to help roof drainage, particularly in winter), increased urbanization and housing density in the city has seen an increase in the use of flat roofs for new home construction. As more young people and families chose the downtown lifestyle, builders are using flat roofs...

While it’s recently cooled down a little, the summer of 2022 has been generally hot and dry in Toronto and the GTA. While that may be great for enjoying the outdoors, it can put added stress on your roof, its support systems and, in turn, your home. The sun rays are notorious destroyers of almost...

It’s summer time and the living is easy. It’s the season to get outside for picnics, trips to the cottage and to enjoy summer festivals. So your roof is probably the last thing on your mind. But summer throws its own unique problems at your roof and here are just a few that you should...

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