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Air Flow In and Out of Buildings
Engineers call the air flowing into buildings infiltration, and that flowing out of them exfitration. These movements have a considerable impact on th...
Ice Dams Do Not Need Eavestroughs20221018054241
Ice Dams Do Not Need Eavestroughs
October 18, 2022attic ventilation, causes, fixes, hearing cables, ice dams, roof, solutions0 comments
Ice dams may depend on eavestroughs in the sense of hanging over them, but they sure don’t cause icycles. However, it’s still easy to get angry with t...
Make a Shingle Roof Last Longer20220711225113
Make a Shingle Roof Last Longer
A good quality shingle roof, installed correctly could last as long as twenty-five years with good care. If not, it could show curling and buckling so...
What Oil Canning Is & Preventing It20220411072007
What Oil Canning Is & Preventing It
Did you ever wonder how easily an empty oil can distorts under pressure from your thumb? This is a characteristic of all thin metal sheet of which kit...
Warning Signs Of Cedar Wood Cupping20220329021504
Warning Signs Of Cedar Wood Cupping
Natural wood is an organic material, and never 100% waterproof unlike fiber cement and vinyl. Cedar wood may be exceptionally hard and dense, but prol...
What Causes Wood Fascias to Rot?20211020013024
What Causes Wood Fascias to Rot?
October 20, 2021calgary, causes, design, down spouts, eaves troughs, fascia, rot, storms, water, wood0 comments
We installed a new eaves trough system for a Calgary client a couple of months ago. We almost begged him to replace the fascia boards at the same time...
Roof Decking & How to Care For It20210406055837
6 Ways to Spot Shingle Hailstone Damage20210105065610
6 Ways to Spot Shingle Hailstone Damage
January 5, 2021causes, cracks, damage, dents, hailstone, ridges, shingle, splits, types, valleys0 comments
Shingles are soft and pliable when new. In fact the way they flow over ridges and valleys is part of their charm. They may harden and become a little ...
Causes of Asphalt Granule Loss20200811055511
Causes of Asphalt Granule Loss
August 11, 2020asphalt, caalgary, causes, losing granules, reasons, roof, roofer, shingles, supplier, what to do0 comments
Asphalt roofing sheets first appeared in 1893, and are still common in asphalt roll roofing but with surface granules added. The original asphalt shin...
Sudden Hailstorms over Calgary in June20190618074127
Sudden Hailstorms over Calgary in June
June 18, 2019alberta, calgary, canada, causes, extreme, global warming, hailstorms, reasons, sudden, trends, violent0 comments
Thunder storms are a common event all over Alberta in June, when towering cumulonimbus clouds gather. These are huge amounts of water vapor carried up...