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How Sheathing Under Siding Matters
The average Calgary homeowner may believe the siding they see, is all there is to their waterproofing. However, nothing could be further from the trut...
Oriented Strand Board or Plywood20230221035254
Oriented Strand Board or Plywood
The price of solid timber keeps rising, while environmentalists tell us to use every scrap of tree we harvest. Plywood and oriented strand board (OSB)...
Seamless Gutters Should Mean That20230216010041
Seamless Gutters Should Mean That
In our world at Valiant Exteriors, seamless means consistently high standards throughout a job. It’s a goal we constantly strive to maintain, and we k...
Cedar Shake Life in the Chemistry20230209022817
Cedar Shake Life in the Chemistry
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The first people on our giant continent may well have called their giant cedars the trees of life, as they rooted in their earth and reached up into t...
Eavestroughs Are More Than Gutters20230131045844
Eavestroughs Are More Than Gutters
We had a customer ask us the other day, how come your eavestroughs seem so expensive. Surely all you do is hang a few gutters and add a couple of down...
A Swale for Overflow Drainage20230124050150
A Swale for Overflow Drainage
A swale is an old English word for a shady spot, often nearby a sunken or marshy place. In its natural role it facilitates overflow run-off, mitigatin...
Wonder Why Some Roofs Sag?20230118013913
Wonder Why Some Roofs Sag?
January 18, 2023age, calgary, construction, design, leaks, reasons, remedy, roof, sag, weight0 comments
A conventional roof framework is a solid structure, resting on walls on a strong foundation. A roof may be a reinforced concrete slab. However, most C...
Safety Harnesses First for Roofers20230110032719
Safety Harnesses First for Roofers
January 10, 20230 comments
Occupational safety always comes first for our work teams and customers, especially when working on roofs. Our people know how important this becomes,...
Nowhere to Attach the Gutters20230104065431
Nowhere to Attach the Gutters
The building in our image is an eavestrough-installer’s dilemma. They arrive on site to quote, but find there’s nowhere to attach the gutters. We’re i...