Guides & Project Stories
Documented installs with real dates and towns, and answer-first guides to the roof questions Oregon homeowners ask us most.
This install: 34 squares of Deep Charcoal aluminum cedar shingle in Cloverdale, Oregon, completed April 2026 — our most recent documented install, built for dairy-valley rain and coastal air.
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The Gorge funnels sustained wind that ordinary roofs never get tested against. Here is how wind uplift ratings work, what ICC-ES ESR-1790 documents, and why four-way interlocked panels have no free edge to fail.
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This install: black aluminum slate installed in Eugene in 2017 — the oldest photographed Oregon roof in our gallery, aging in public while asphalt neighbors head for their next tear-off.
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This install: 22 squares of black aluminum standing seam in Warren, Columbia County, completed May 2025 — concealed fasteners and clean vertical lines, documented in aerial photography.
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West of the Cascades, moss is the number-one thing that retires asphalt and cedar roofs early. Here is why it happens, what treatment actually costs you, and why moss cannot root on interlocked aluminum.
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