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National Curb Appeal Month Checklist for Homeowners
Looking for a way to increase the value of your home? Whether you want to enhance your home’s beauty for your long-term enjoyment or boost the value of your home to put it on the market, it’s important to keep curb appeal top of mind. That’s because first impressions count. Indeed, curb ...
Roof Stains are a Thing of the Past With GAF Algae Fighting Shingles
By Don Kilcoyne for GAF. Algae fighting breakthroughs mean your roof will stay beautiful indefinitely. As a homeowner, you know that special feeling of pride in seeing the rich textures and precise colors of a beautifully-installed new roof. It ties all of your other design choices together. It symbolizes a long-term investment in protecting the ...
5 Metal Roof Misconceptions
By DECRA Metal Roofing. The truth about those metal roof myths you have heard. If you’ve ever mentioned wanting to get a metal roof, you’ve probably heard someone say in response, “But don’t they make your house hotter?” or “What about when it rains?” When it comes to roofing materials, metal roofs certainly have more than ...
Assessing the Top 3 Residential Roof Types
By Storm Recovery Experts. Pros and cons of the Hip Roof, Gable Roof and Flat Roof and which roof type is the best across the board. From curb appeal to protecting your home, a roof serves a purpose. It is important to know the ins and outs that come with your roof so you can choose the best protection. The security of a ...
Tile Identification Helps You Solve the Puzzle of Finding Matching Replacements
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. All Points Tile and Slate provides free tile identification to save you from misidentifying your tile replacements. Whether you are uncertain because you made the choice decades ago or you just moved into a home and have noticed a few missing tiles, identifying the type of tile ...
A Breath of Fresh Air: These Shingles Help Improve Air Quality
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. The industry's first shingle with smog-reducing granules means each roof has the pollution-fighting potential of two trees! Smog is a significant form of air pollution. It happens when UV light interacts with chemicals in the atmosphere released from things like burning fuel. As a gas, smog is easily inhaled and ...
Working With Red Brick in Exterior Design
By Cass Jacoby. How to stop worrying and love the exterior design cues coming from the red brick on your home. Handling red brick in the exterior design can be tricky. If you own a home with red brick, you are probably familiar with how frustrating it can be to find a ...
Maintaining Roof Appearance with Algae Protection
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Give your roof proper algae armor and you will never see those black streaks again. You may have googled it before: What are those ugly black streaks and dark spots on my roof? Is it dirt? Soot? Those black streaks are actually algae. Dew on roofs, mixed with humidity and sunlight, ...
Signature Cut Shingles With an Impactful Design
By PABCO. These diamond-shaped shingles offer a completely unique option for your out-of-the-ordinary home. Do you get excited when you pass by a house that looks like it belongs in a fairy tale or a history textbook? Are you always looking for new ways to make your home truly and uniquely yours? Then the Cascade™ diamond-shaped Signature Cut shingles from PABCO® could ...
Metal Roof Takes on Extreme Weather of Alberta, Canada
By Metal Roofing Alliance (MRA). When an asphalt roof was unable to keep up with the temperature fluctuations, Canadian couple replaced roof with a material as tough as they are. The project Alberta experiences some of the more extreme weather conditions. Located in “hailstorm alley,” during the summer monster hail storms regularly bring in high winds and large hail stones. A couple years ago, a ...
