Three Flat Roof Drainage Options20240424025456
Three Flat Roof Drainage Options
Flat roofs have a number of advantages, although these depend on each application. They can make a commercial building seem less imposing, because the...
Is Your Home Graded Properly?20221213021856
Is Your Home Graded Properly?
December 13, 2022calculate, calgary, fall, garden, gradient, grading, land, measure, property, rise, slope0 comments
Property grading has nothing to do with property zoning, and development rights in this instance. Here we are thinking of the natural, or artificial a...
Sloping the Streams Around Your Roof20220727114300
Sloping the Streams Around Your Roof
All water responds similarly to gravity and slopes. When we think about it, we realise our eavestroughs are like canals around our roofs. The valleys ...
The Minimum Roof Pitch for Regular Shingles20200429033943
The Minimum Roof Pitch for Regular Shingles
April 29, 2020calculate, criteria, measure, pitch, roof, roofing material, shingles, slope, surroundings, taste0 comments
Roof pitch refers to the steepness of a roof as a ratio relative to absolute flatness. In North America we express this as a fraction of 12. Hence a r...
The Importance of a Well-Equipped Gutter Contractor20180606015851
The Importance of a Well-Equipped Gutter Contractor
June 6, 2018aluminium, calgary, eavestrough, experience, extrusion, first time, gutter, quality, right, roofline, run off, seamless, slope0 comments
Installing gutters under roof overhangs is more complex than it looks. Ask any DIY homeowner who tried to do the job themselves, and botched it. They ...