Climate change is impacting your roof, and you may not even know it. While hardly predictable on a local level, broad climate change trends seem to mean dramatic changes in overall climate in specific regions, and this can mean changes for how you protect your roof. Read the article to see why.
While painting a roof white may help reflect the sun’s heat away from your roof, it makes a lot more sense to put down an insulating layer as well so that your roof does it’s job in both the summer and the winter. This is particularly true in more northern states, where white roofs are [...]
Never repair or patch a problem on a metal roof with asphalt roof cement. This type of cement becomes hard and brittle and does not allow the normal expansion and contraction of metal roofing. Asphalt cement is also very hard to remove causing much more prep work to get it off to allow the proper [...]
The single largest energy expense area for education facilities is space heating and ventilation - a whopping 57% of total energy end-use according to the March 2009 Department of Energy Building Energy Data Book. If you add cooling, this rises to 67%. In most buildings, approximately 12% of the thermal energy loss occurs directly through the roof, [...]
Did you know that one-sixth of the electricity produced annually in the United States goes to air conditioning buildings? It’s amazing how inefficient roofing can cause your heating and cooling costs to soar. A building’s roof can heat up to 150 degrees on an average day in the summer allowing heat absorption inside the building [...]
Finding a leak in a flat roof can be considerably more challenging than locating one on a slope. For one thing, sloped roof leaks tend to appear at or below the leak point, whereas a flat roof leak can spread out and seep through at a considerable distance from the actual leak point. One of [...]
There is no known nutritional value to SPF. There has been a very small percentage of SPF roofs that received minor damage as the result of birds pecking at the surface of an SPF roof. The damage caused is typically very minimal and can be repaired with a tube of urethane caulking. Recent advancements in [...]
Hot or cold rooms could signal that there are differences in temperature and these differences may be caused by air leakage. Drafts can also indicate that there are large areas where air is seeping into your building. Some of the most common interior leaks of cold air in a commercial building come from electrical wall outlets, windows, [...]
If you are looking for ways to save money, spray foam insulation is the most cost effective way to decrease your energy bills and increase your energy efficiency. Most experts agree that homes and businesses lack the proper insulation and the money spent on heating and cooling bills is flowing right through to the outside [...]
With recent snow fall and freeze thaw cycles, our roof tops are accumulating significant load weights.When considering the removal of snow contact a roofing professional contractor to determine the need and proper method for snow removal. Damage can occur when untrained workers remove snow from the roof top. Tears, punctures, abrasion, and resulting moisture migration [...]
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