In North Carolina, add value to your home. Adding the right roof...
Roofing warranties are a funny thing. If you buy a new car and get a 3-year warranty, you fully expect to have a functional, good looking car at the end of three years – not a rusted bucket of bolts. If you buy that new flat screen television and get...
Whenever you hire a contractor to work on your home, it is critical to hire the right contractor. Each year, on investigative news reports, we hear horror stories about homeowners who chose the wrong contractor and were left with, at best, faulty workmanship or, at worst, a contractor who took...
The benefits of residential metal roofing are well known. Energy efficiency. Durability. No maintenance. Fire Safety. Wind Resistance. None of those ugly black streaks. And, everywhere we go, people tell us that they are seeing more and more metal roofs “pop up” all of the time. On the other hand, everyone...
When you begin researching different roofing materials, you will discover that roofs can be very heavy or they can be very low weight. The difference can be like parking three fully loaded dump trucks on top of your home, or half of a Mini Cooper. Depending upon the type of material...
At McCarthy Metal Roofing, we have the opportunity to talk to many homeowners looking for a new roof each and every week. So very often, we hear from them about how frustrated they are with the short lives of asphalt shingle roofs. They will often even tell us that asphalt...
Those steep pitched mansard roofs have long been a staple of southern architecture. But they present special challenges for homeowners. Here are just a few: The steep roofs become a real focal point of the home so you need a roof system that looks great, and stays that way. The warranties of...
