Roofs for houses
people intend to keep.

The default for most Pennsylvania homes, and the system where installation quality matters more than the label on the bundle. Ice-and-water at the eaves and valleys, correct starter and ridge detailing, and ventilation balanced to the attic — the parts nobody sees are the parts that fail first. Class 4 impact-rated laminates are worth specifying anywhere hail is a routine event.

On a tile roof the tile is the rain screen and the underlayment is the roof. Most tile "failures" are underlayment failures with perfectly good tile sitting on top — which is why a tile reroof is usually a lift-and-relay, not a tear-off. We inventory, stack, and reset the field tile and replace only what breaks.

The traditional roof for the region's farmhouses and bank barns, and still the most honest answer for a long roof plane with a lot of weather on it. Standing seam hides its fasteners and moves with temperature; exposed-fastener panel is the economical choice for agricultural buildings. Snow retention gets designed in, not added after the first slide.

Nearly every older house has one — a porch roof, a rear addition, a shed dormer — and it is almost always where the leak is. Shingles do not belong below 3:12. We detail these sections as real low-slope assemblies, with the transition to the steep-slope field flashed as a deliberate joint rather than an afterthought.