Standing Seam also offers homeowners some unique benefits that they may not have known about. For example, mechanically seamed metal roofing can be installed on virtually flat surfaces eliminating the ...

The first layer on top of the plywood or OSB roof deck is underlayment. For this, we chose a self-healing ice-and-water membrane to protect the shallow-pitched roof deck. The tricky part in laying the ...

Q: Shortly after it was built, we noticed a slightly lifted-looking horizontal line (shingles not flat as the others) on the upper-left area of the roof when looking at the front of the house. The ...

A fire-retardant plywood that has become a standard building material in town house developments in the last decade has now been found to decompose after only a few years, leaving homeowners and ...

Q: My family room is attached to the house and has a two-slope, gabled roof. Moss grows on one side, so much that is becomes thick and water-logged, and water backs up under the shingles and causes ...