Underlayment
Keep your home and wallet secure with CraftGrade
By Emma Peterson. These top-of-the-line products keep your roofing project in budget without sacrificing long-term durability and performance. TopShield®, SRS Distribution's premium product brand, provides a variety of different roofing product lines, each specially created to meet a different need. For the CraftGrade™ line, the goal was to create ...
Putting on premium part 1: Residential
By Emma Peterson. TopShield products balance beauty and performance to create long-lasting roofs. Replacing your roof is a big project, both monetarily and structurally. Monetarily, roofs are often the second biggest investment homeowners make (second to buying the home in the first place) and structurally, the roof is the ...
Your roof is a complete system, not just the material you see
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. Your roof is not simply the shingles, panels or membrane visible from outside. When most homeowners look at a roof, they see shingles, metal panels, tile, or another finished surface. That visible material is important, but it is only one part of what protects the building. ...
Making roofing manageable
By Emma Peterson. Learn about the roof above your head in the short and simple AskARoofer Minisode series. Most people don’t know much about roofs except that they are expensive and should keep the elements out of their home or business. And while it is very normal not to ...
Inside the roof replacement process
By EAS Roofing. Every phase of a roof replacement plays a critical role in safeguarding your home from weather and wear. Replacing a roof is a rare project for the average property owner, which can make the process feel foreign or intimidating when the time eventually comes. Understanding the ...
Understanding roof underlayments
By Fields Roof Service. This overlooked layer protecting your home deserves your attention. When people picture their roof, their minds typically go to the shingles, gutters, chimneys — the parts visible on the outside. However, there are so many more parts to a roof that work together below the ...
Learn about roofing from the experts themselves
By Emma Peterson. AskARoofer Minisodes are a great way to learn more about the roof above your head! Here at AskARoofer (AAR), we know that life gets busy, and time is a hot commodity. This is why we developed the AAR Minisode podcast series! Each episode of this series is ...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Synthetic Roof Underlayment
There are two types of roof underlayment typically in use today – felt and synthetic. Most roofers are familiar with felt and have used it for years beneath asphalt roofing shingles. Synthetic roof underlayments are newer and come with a number of advantages as well as a few disadvantages to their ...
Underlayment - Which is the Best for My Tile Roof?
Underlayments are very important to consider. Believe it or not, tile roofing systems will allow water to get below the tile and on to the underlayment. The flat tiles are worse compared to the valley profiles with humps and pans. This is one reason the battens have space every four feet ...
