Chimney Tales You May Not Know20201229030345
Chimney Tales You May Not Know
Chimneys on older Calgary houses tell tales their owners may not know. Tales when wood-burning fires roared through their flues, and sent sparks burst...
What You Should Know About Roof Decking20201222073227
What You Should Know About Roof Decking
December 22, 2020oriented strandboard, plank sheathing, plywood, roof decking, roof sheathing, step sheathing, timber, tongue and groove0 comments
Roof decking is supposed to cover over attic space, not conceal a multitude of sins. You might be surprised to know how often roof decker’s cover subs...
Eavestroughs Are Not Responsible for Ice Dams20201215074757
Eavestroughs Are Not Responsible for Ice Dams
Look up at your eavestroughs in winter, and you may see icicles hanging over them like a partly frozen waterfall. However, you can’t blame your gutter...
Ice and Water Protection for Your Roof20201208002736
Ice and Water Protection for Your Roof
Home insurance policies cover us for unexpected damage, in other words things we can’t reasonably plan to avoid. Insurers expect us to do regular main...
Which Is Best Steel or Aluminum Gutters?20201201031410
Which Is Best Steel or Aluminum Gutters?
December 1, 2020aluminum, calgary, choosing, contractor, deciding, eavestroughs, gutters, steel0 comments
Gutters have been on houses for as long as our ancestors knew they needed to drain rainwater away from their foundations. The earliest solution may ha...
Why We Use K-Style Gutter Profiles20201124051242
Why We Use K-Style Gutter Profiles
November 24, 2020aliminum, compare, eavestroughs, extruded, features, gutters, k-style, review0 comments
The eavestrough gutters that flow around the lower perimeter of our roofs have a most important task. This is to catch the moisture flowing down, and ...
Ways to Shingle a Roof Valley20201117072642
Ways to Shingle a Roof Valley
November 17, 2020advice, closed valley, how to finish, open valley, roof, shingle, valley, waterproof, what's best0 comments
A valley, in the natural sense is elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along...
The Low Down on Spouts for Your Gutters20201110012113
The Low Down on Spouts for Your Gutters
Down spouts are the parts of your eavestrough system that point down to below and empty your gutters, well hopefully of water. You need sufficient spo...
Does an 8th Inch Gutter Expansion Matter?20201103014257
Does an 8th Inch Gutter Expansion Matter?
November 3, 2020aluminum, avoiding, calgary, contraction, eavestrough, expansion, gutter, problem solved, thermal, twisting, warping0 comments
Aluminum seamless gutters are made from thin, pliable material that expands and contracts in length with the ambient temperature. You may like to know...
Thinking of Open-Faced Downspouts?20201027042056
Thinking of Open-Faced Downspouts?
Traditional guttering systems use open-faced eavestroughs to receive water from the roof, and fully-enclosed down pipes to deliver it to the drainage ...