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Tips for Ventilating Your Roof Space

While you may know that attic ventilation helps control indoor temperature and saves energy costs, you may not realize that improper ventilation can damage your roof, create ice dams and reduce your...

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Selecting Roof Vents for Your Home

Since attic ventilation is critical to saving energy and properly heating or cooling your home, it’s important to select roof vents that are both cost effective and efficient. The best way to ensure...

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5 Types of Roof Vents & Energy Savings Info

As mentioned in our earlier post, Tips for ventilating Your Roof Space, an optimized ventilation system is needed to balance the temperature and moisture levels in your home’s attic space. 3 Reasons...

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3 Reasons for Common Winter Roof Repairs: Leaks, Water Damage and Ice Dams

The annual season of snow, wind and ice can brutalize our home’s exterior, leaving a number of frustrating roofing repairs in its wake. To avoid wet (and expensive) damage to your roof this winter,...

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Protecting Your NJ Roof From Ice & Snow Damage

Given the amount of snow New Jersey has received over the past few days it’s understandable that NJ homeowners are nervous about the impact of this weather on their roofing structures. After all, it’s...

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4 Must-Know Facts About Vent Pipe Repairs

Vent pipes in the roof allow heat and gases to escape from your home, but like other household components, they can wear out. Roof vent pipes often have collars around their base, to keep rain water...

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NJ Roofing Repair – Introducing a New Website

We’re happy to introduce our latest website dedicated to all types of roofing repairs we come across in our profession. We share lots of DIY roofing tips and offer simple repair suggestions so please...

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Common Roofing Problems: Leaky Vent Pipe Repairs

Piping that travels up through your attic and out through your roof can spring leaks, which leads to excess moisture. Over time, this added moisture creates structural instabilities and allows mold and...

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Roof Ventilation: What You Should Know

You may think you are “in the clear” on the home improvement front after installing a new roof or having appropriate roofing repairs made on an older structure. It’s not quite the case, though. In...

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The Importance of Proper Attic Ventilation in Ice Dam Prevention

Like many weather-related threats facing your home every winter, ice dams can be a fairly common problem in New Jersey. Ice dams can lead to roof leaks, rotted roof decking/framing/walls, and reduced...

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Proper Roof Ventilation

Roof ventilation can extend the life of your roof, if properly installed… See full article at http://www.rooflife-oregon.com/roof-ventilaton-key-to-a-longer-lasting-roof.html

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Attic Ventilation: 5 Types of Roof Vents

As mentioned in our earlier post, Tips for Ventilating Your Roof Space, an optimized ventilation system is needed to balance the temperature and moisture levels in your home’s attic space. 3 Reasons...

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Preventive Fall Roofing Maintenance: 3 Tips for a Leak-Free Winter

If you caught our recent article about fall roof inspection, you know that semi-annual roof checkups can prevent costly damage down the road. In addition to regular exterior inspections, however, there...

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Why Roof Ventilation Is Critical For a Healthy Roof System

The majority of houses in the United States feature roofs with steep slopes, topped with shingles, which surround attics in the interior of the home. While this design has many distinct advantages, one...

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Smart Tips for Ventilating Your Roof Space

Proper attic ventilation is essential to control moisture/heat buildup in an attic space and as such is an important part of roof maintenance. Using quality ventilation materials and following best...

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Winter Gutter Maintenance: 6 Tips to Avoid Ice Dams

The often extreme New Jersey winter weather conditions can lead to dangerous ice buildup in and near roof gutters. Known as ice dams, these blockages can pose major problems for your roof and your...

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