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26 Feb Green is a given. What comes next in roofing for North Carolina homeowners?

Posted at 6:44 PM in Buying a Metal Roof, Energy Savings, Environmental Benefits of Metal Roofing, Financial Benefits of Metal Roofing, Metal Roofing and Extreme Weather, News, Protection, Research, Resiliency, Sustainability

Roofing, just like technology, is following Moore’s Law which addresses the ever-increasing speed of change and advancement. We are seeing a rapid succession of product developments, and the inclusion of technology in such roofing areas as measuring, marketing, estimating, visualizing, and sales. These are exciting timesBack in 1996, well-known futurist...

15 Sep Do You Just Have A “Bad Batch” Of Shingles??

Posted at 4:01 PM in Buying a Metal Roof

Roofing warranties are a funny thing. If you buy a new car and get a 3-year warranty, you fully expect to have a functional, good looking car at the end of three years – not a rusted bucket of bolts. If you buy that new flat screen television and get...

09 Jan Does The Weight Of Your Roof Matter?

Posted at 10:44 AM in Beautiful Roofing, Buying a Metal Roof

When you begin researching different roofing materials, you will discover that roofs can be very heavy or they can be very low weight. The difference can be like parking three fully loaded dump trucks on top of your home, or half of a Mini Cooper.Depending upon the type of material...

12 Jul Is Every Vertical Seam Roof a Standing Seam Roof?

Posted at 8:32 AM in Beautiful Roofing, Buying a Metal Roof

Is every vertical seam a standing seam roof? The answer is no! Recent years have seen dramatic increase in the residential use of metal roofing. In fact, probably no single product class has seen greater growth in its use on homes than has metal roofing over the past ten or...

04 Jul Beating The Heat With Your Next Roof

Posted at 5:41 PM in Energy Savings, Environmental Benefits of Metal Roofing

In the last two metal roof posts, we have looked at the reflective pigments used in some metal roof coatings and also the airspace between the metal and your home's framing which can be achieved with some metal roofs. Both the reflective pigments and the airspace as a thermal break...

10 Jun More Energy Facts About Aluminum Roofing

Posted at 5:39 AM in Energy Savings

In our last blog post, we began to explore how aluminum roofs keep homes naturally cooler in hot weather. In fact, homeowners often report energy savings of 20% and even more after their Classic Metal Roof is installed.In the previous blog post, we focused on the reflective pigments used in...

02 May Metal Roofing:Slate Look that is Beautiful and Durable

Posted at 11:32 AM in Beautiful Roofing, Buying a Metal Roof

We are very excited about the recent introduction of the Slate Rock aluminum roofing series by our favorite metal roofing manufacturer, Classic Metal Roofing Systems. In recent years, several companies have tried to reproduce the beauty of natural slate roofing in metal authentically. But they have all fallen short. We...

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26 Feb Green is a given. What comes next in roofing for North Carolina homeowners?

15 Sep Do You Just Have A “Bad Batch” Of Shingles??

09 Jan Does The Weight Of Your Roof Matter?

12 Jul Is Every Vertical Seam Roof a Standing Seam Roof?

04 Jul Beating The Heat With Your Next Roof

10 Jun More Energy Facts About Aluminum Roofing

02 May Metal Roofing:Slate Look that is Beautiful and Durable

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