Notes on metal, weather
and Florida roofs.
Written in the shop, not by a marketing team. Approvals, gauges, uplift numbers and the parts of the code that decide what goes on your roof.
Is it time for a new roof? Seven signs, Florida edition.
A roof rarely fails on a calendar. It fails in Florida years — which run faster than the ones on paper. Salt air, ultraviolet load, afternoon storms and the occasional named visitor age…
Why 5V Crimp never left Florida.
Every region keeps one building material past its era. New England kept cedar shakes. The Southwest kept clay tile. Florida kept a thin sheet of metal with five raised Vs pressed into it…
Florida will pay up to $10,000 toward your roof. Here is how it actually works.
Most homeowners in Southwest Florida have heard some version of it: the state has a program, there is money for roofs, somebody's neighbor got a check. The program is real. It is called…
Kynar 500 or SMP: the two paints, honestly.
Every colored metal roof starts as bare coil that ran through a paint line. What went on it is one of two chemistries — and the difference does not show on day one. It shows in year ten…