Roofing 101
Contract with my roofer, do I need one?
Contract with my roofer. . . do I need one? Simple question-big answer. When doing any home improvements it is always a good idea to have a written contract no matter how big or small to the job is. Long gone are the days of a promise, hand a shake and trusting ...
Roofing Tear Off, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The removal of a roof is probably the hardest thing about the roofing process. Tearing off a roof. Many home-owners think it is a simple thing to rent a dumpster, get some buddies together and tear off the roof. This is a great way to save some money – right? The ...
SubContractor - Is that a bad word?
SubContractor. . . is that a bad word? So you are about to hire a roofing contractor and the subject of a sub-contractor comes up. What is a Sub-Contractor and is it a bad thing to have them on your roofing project? It is not required to have a license to ...
Cool Roofs in California, Are You ready?
Roofing to meet Title 24 in California, are you ready? We in California are very familiar with title 24 regarding Cool Roofs. For the past few years, we understand our choices of roofing materials are limited to the shingles now commonly called Cool Roof shingles. Both residential and commercial roofs, in ...
Nailing Shingles Fast Means Blow Offs
Nailing asphalt shingles Speed nailing may be fun for showing off, but it is bad for producing quality work. I see this all the time. Roofs poorly nailed blow off very easily. I speak from experience, you can’t nail shingles with lightning speed and position the nails properly. Any idiot can ...
Tubular Skylight Location Tip
Tubular skylights are a fast and easy way to bring natural lighting into the home and are fairly easy to install. As a contractor, I have installed hundreds of these types of skylights, and as long as you follow some basic instructions, within a couple of hours the room below a ...
Tools and Tips to Measure a Roof
Measuring a roof can be easy or hard. It depends on the type of house you are trying to measure. Most roofers rely on getting up on the roof to take lengths and widths of the build. This works great except when the roofs are steep are difficult to access and ...
Question To Ask Your Roofer - Construction Bond
There are many questions to qualify your choice of a roofing contractor to install your roof. The most important one, in my opinion, is, Does the state you are in, require a contractor to be Licensed and Bonded? Many states require some sort of registering or licensing to contract a roofing ...
Dry Rot Rafter Repair
Dry rot rafters are a common problem with homes. Dry rot is caused by a lack of maintaining the paint on fascia boards, leaky gutters and problems with the roofing just to mention a few. The best time to fix the dry rot on an eave or rafter tail is when doing ...
Roofers Lingo
Terms the roofers use some times can be confusing and very frustrating to understand. As you schedule meeting to get estimates from roofers you will notice some estimators use almost, what sounds like, a foreign language. Terms like Hot Mop it, Torch a Bitumen Roll, Paint the Flashings, Cut the Hips, ...
