Solar roof tiles
Posted by Dinah in Green Roofing, Home Roofing on 16. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
I came across this really exciting innovation about Solar tiles. Very inspiring http://www.housesolarenergy.net There are more ideas about home roofing at Home roofing
Metal Shakes
Posted by Robert in Green Roofing, Metal Roofing on 15. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Up on Vancouver Island they roof with metal shingles. We do a lot of metal roofing down here in Sydney, but I haven’t come across Ironwood Shakes before. You can read more about them at www.ryanparton.ca We use the corrugated and long-form metal sections, coupled with a good heat-reflective paint for our metal roofing.
Some Advantages of Metal Roofing
Posted by Robert in Green Roofing, Metal Roofing on 10. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
There are quite a number of ways of constructing a metal roof, and a number of different metals to use too. They can look really attractive, and are very environmentally friendly, as metal can be recycled and can be a great insulator, reflecting heat. Here’s a good article – Metal Roofing Advantages – that’s posted [...]
Green Roofs
Posted by Robert in Green Roofing, Home Roofing on 09. Sep, 2010 | 1 Comment
We’ve talked about the benefits of metal roofs and heat-reflective paints on other pages of this site ( the pages are metal roofing and roof restoration ). But I came across this good blog post about installing a green roof at www.emergencyrefinancing.com which is good because it points out the shortfalls of some of the [...]
