Roofing Bliss

When I was young and foolish, I found myself adrift in Southwestern England, and paired up with a footloose recorder player named Mitch. Neither Mitch nor I had a roof over our heads, but we soon remedied the situation by finding a leaky tow person tent and using plastic roofing to cover the leaks.

We graduated from the tent to building a small “bender” covered with plastic roofing and surplus Army tents, and grew our own food with the help of a DIY greenhouse in which plants were sheltered with plastic roofing. Both the greenhouse and bender, thanks to their plastic roofing, were standing when I finally left England. Read the rest of this entry »

Your choice of patio roofing can either make your patio look like an integral part of your home, or make you patio look like a poorly conceived afterthought. So you should choose your patio roofing with care, and do it before you begin construction of your patio’s walls. You need to ensure that your finished patio walls will be strong enough to handle the weight of your patio roofing.

Both translucent fiberglass panels and different types of metal roofing are popular patio roofing materials. Some homeowners have even installed solar panels in their patio roofing, to help reduce their home energy bills. Read the rest of this entry »

While you may have to spend a considerable amount of time deciding which of the most popular residential metal roofing materials to install on your home, you may have to spend even more time searching for the best residential metal roofing contractor to do the job.

The reputation of the residential metal roofing industry has suffered because of shoddy work done by hundreds of independent, or “cowboy” roofing contractors, and The Metal Roofing Alliance was founded in an attempt to salvage the industry’s good name. You can find a great deal of very useful information at the Metal Roofing Alliance website. Read the rest of this entry »

While roll roofing material certainly makes for easier roof installation than shingles or tiles, installing roll roofing is still a difficult job for an individual to do properly. Before you can begin a roll roofing job, you have to purchase the right amounts of the right type of roll roofing, and wit for ah warm day on which to install it.

You also have to unroll the roofing material so that it will lie flat for twenty-four hours before you being to install it. This will keep it from trying to roll back up once it has been attached to your roof. Read the rest of this entry »