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Steel and Aluminum Fascia and Warping
If you choose a metallic finish for your soffits, then your choices are between steel and aluminum fascias. Unless, of course, you want to make a more...
Recycling Aluminum Gutters and Siding20250101040235
Recycling Aluminum Gutters and Siding
Aluminum is a highly abundant silvery metal. It is lightweight, relatively soft, and easily rolls and presses into a variety of shapes. In fact, alumi...
Are Six Inch Gutters Better For You?20241030063453
Are Six Inch Gutters Better For You?
Our seamless extruded aluminum gutters don’t just come in a variety of colours to suit your style. We also offer them in five and six-inch widths, and...
Best Hanger Brackets for Gutters20231011091805
Best Hanger Brackets for Gutters
The Best Gutter Brackets for Your Eavestroughs Gutter brackets are largely overlooked by homeowners installing eavestrough systems, provided they ‘loo...
Galvanic Corrosion in Eavestrough Systems20230621090640
Galvanic Corrosion in Eavestrough Systems
June 21, 2023aluminum, calgary, corrosion, galvanic, galvanised steel, mild steel, stainless steel0 comments
Clients sometimes ask us why we insist on changing gutter brackets when we replace their eavestrough systems. Our reasoning is sometimes because the p...
Does Aluminum Rust Like Metal?20221206104751
Does Aluminum Rust Like Metal?
Rust is the colloquial term for a coating that occurs on the surface of iron, and many of its alloys. This happens as a response to the presence of ox...
How to Evaluate Quality Rainware20221011054747
How to Evaluate Quality Rainware
We get what we pay for in a highly competitive world. There’s usually a good reason why some products cost more than others. No company can survive lo...
What You Should Know Fascia Cladding20220126003220
What You Should Know Fascia Cladding
January 26, 2022advantages, aluminum, calgary, fascia, fit, install, material, purpose, uses, vinyl, wood0 comments
‘Fascia’ in architecture refers to the vertical strip running directly beneath a roof edge, and often attached to the lower end of the rafters. There...
The Rising Cost of Aluminum20210907044935
The Rising Cost of Aluminum
September 7, 2021aluminum, calgary, canada, contracting, prices, roofing, siding, supplier0 comments
Aluminum screws, fittings, and flashings are an integral part of our trade as roofers and siding installers. Hence the rising cost of aluminum affects...
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...