Fake Slate Mistaken For Real Slate This is a home for sale that I was asked to inspect a while back. The roof was said to be a real slate roof which is a product we generally refer to our friends at Scottie Ballentyne Roofing, but a good customer requested an inspection of this property [...]

Is a Metal Steel Roof Overlay a good system?                 The roof above is one I recently looked at for a potential buyer of this property. It is a stone coated steel roof installed over a cedar shake roof approximately 15 years old located in far North Dallas. [...]

What is the minimum slope for a shingle Roof ? Shingles or all types need to have slope to function properly. The minimum requirement is 2/12. The 2/12 number is rise orver run, or two units of vertical for every 12 units horizontal. That works out to about nine degrees if that works better for [...]

Adjusting: What Contractors Can & Can Not Do Last week we attended the monthly "Lunch & Learn" meeting with the North Texas Roofing Contractors Association. The speakers were Bill Voss of the Voss Law Firm and Jake Posey of The Posey Law Firm.  Both are active in insuarnce work and / or plugged into the current [...]

Green Builder Magazine Reader's Poll Picks CertainTeed A recent poll had CertainTeed come out as the top manufacturer of Green Roofing Products. The "Reader's Choice" Poll was in a recent issue of Green Builder Magazine. The magazine also reported that energy efficiency (HERS Index) is a growing trend and will likely be mandatory in many future [...]

Good story on hail damage research recently in the North Carolina Observer.   Scientist create a hail cannon and when fired in can reproduce a hail storm. Different roofing materials are put in the path of various sized hail stones and the results are recorded. Interesting to note that larger hail stones not only ahve [...]

Nice note received from the Jay Butcher, Director of Contractor Programs, CertainTeed   From that letter   “You’ll be happy to learn that your company registered the 2nd most SureStart Plus warranty jobs in Texas for 2012! Considering the number of eligible contractors in Texas, that is quite an accomplishment! It gives me great pleasure [...]

Bert Roofing Inc. has won a "Golden Hammer" Award from the North Texas Roofing Contractor's Association for "Outstanding Residential Project" for the 2012 year. Bert Roofing Inc. has won more NTRCA awards than any other contractor and this is the fourth time for the "Outstanding Residential Project" Award. The 2012 project envolved the removal of [...]

After hours last week burglars entered a Garland Jewelry Shop by cutting through the pictured TPO roof, insulation, and wood deck. With the right saw it took little time to gain access to this property.   While the roof system was a good one, it behaved like most roofs do when assaulted with a power [...]

As a person who was raised in East Dallas it was hard to drive around today (6/14/12) and see the horrible damage done to so many of the historical building of the Lakewood area. The Lakewood Theater marque took a hard hit. So did many of the majestic home on Swiss Avenue and Lakewood Boulevard. [...]