Did Your Roof Survive The Winter Storm?

Oregon averages over 40 inches of rain per year, but we receive over 50% of that volume during the three main winter months. Combine the Greater Portland area’s blustery weather with holidays, resolutions and everyday life, and you’ll start to see there’s no time to go outside and examine the condition of your roof until spring is here.

That time has finally come. Your roof has endured countless days of precipitation and even a few snow storms. Now that the major storm season is over, and Mother Nature has started working her magic on our flowers, what kind of damage did your roof endure?

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A Short-Circuit Roof Ventilation System

We recently discussed an array of products you can use for attic exhaust and intake to obtain a balanced roof ventilation system. One topic we covered lightly, that we wanted to go into more detail about, was the commonly found problem of short-circuiting your roof ventilation system. Below you will find a perfect example of a roof that will experience a higher level of degradation than normal.

Short-Circuit Ventilation System

Short-Circuit Ventilation System

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Roof Ventilation: The Good, Bad and Ugly

About two weeks ago, the marketing and roof consultant team attended a seminar on attic ventilation giving us additional information and knowledge about the subject to share with our clients. Today, we’d like to take the opportunity to share with you the pros and cons of different exhaust and intake products that can be used to complete your roof ventilation system.

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Innovative Roof Replacement Systems

At Roof Life of Oregon, weather patterns may slow us down, but rarely does our production come to a screeching halt. We constantly work to refine our processes and search for innovative roof replacement systems. A recent example is the tent system we devised that allowed us to remove and replace the plywood on one of our roof replacement clients.

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Does a Presidential Roof Really Save You Money?

There is a growing trend in the roofing community and our client base, a shake roof is becoming a specialty item while a presidential roof accepts its position as a commodity in roofing materials. The perception is a presidential roof is easier to maintain and will look better than an old black decaying shake roof. The truth is, it does. Until the presidential roof starts to decay too.

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Gutter Debris: Special Finger Painting Gutter Ooze

Special finger painting gutter ooze has been identified as the suspect in a recent house splattering incident. Dan K. sent us a complaint through Yelp stating:

My neighbor had their roof cleaned by Roof Life of Oregon. I went out to see how the job was being done and to make sure my house wouldn’t get splattered. Didn’t think there would be a problem because of the distance between the houses. Wrong! Went back out later and found debris from my neighbor’s roof splattered all over the side of my house from the top floor to the ground – somehow splattering the crud even higher on my house than the height of the single story house he was working on . . .

What Dan doesn’t take into account is when we clean a roof we also clean out all of the gutters. ‘Splattering crud’ is inevitable as we explain, with your mind in the gutter, the problem with gutter debris.
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Pressure Washing Your Roof With Enough Pressure to Erupt a Volcano

Enough pressure to erupt a volcano, or at least enough to cause a complaint by one of our client’s neighbors. We recently received a Yelp review by Dan K. of Beaverton, OR making claims about our cleaning techniques:

He used way too much pressure on the pressure washer, evidenced by the substantial amount of roofing mineral on my house, sidewalk, vehicles, and driveway . . .

Unfortunately this is a commonly used perception by people unfamiliar with our roof cleaning techniques. We’d like to set the record straight and dispel the perception that Roof Life of Oregon’s roof cleaning technique is a high water pressure system.

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Radio Ad for February 2011

Have you heard the new Roof Life of Oregon radio ads for February? Listen to our 15, 30, and 60 second spot below and let us know what you think!

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