In other words, your roof is sort of like the “skin” of your house ... flat roofs are the same, and you’ll want to make sure that you select a coating that is designed for your roof. Old ...

and the perception that pitch houses are old-fashioned. What are the challenges facing homeowners with flat roofs? However, Adrian Gachewa, a graduate practising architect from the University of ...

We have a 23-year-old felt flat roof on a ground floor extension ... We do not want to have a "torch-on" felt roof (neighbours had their house burnt down by contractors doing that) and the ...

Unless I live to be 120, at which time, I’ll gladly spring for a new roof. Alan D. Miller is a former Dispatch editor who teaches journalism at Denison University and writes about old house ...

when they saw a magazine ad for a modernist home in Boca Raton. The pair spent 20 years in their midcentury modern house, but didn’t like how the area had changed from a quiet beach town into an ...

The old flat roof leaked, and repairs made by the ... the roof and renovate the interior of the building which will house mail carrier operations. But it won't cover the cost of renovating the ...

For most of 31 years, Sarah and Frank Drummond were content with their Maitland house – a ’50s, flat-roof “Florida-box-with-a-carport.” But at times, they yearned for a house with a bit ...

We are designing a pitched roof for our 1950s-era home that has an almost-flat torch-down roof ... When possible, keeping the old roof structure in place is actually a good technique.

A young girl is being called a hero by her own family after she ran inside her house as its roof burned to alert her ... where she found her 29-year-old mother, Laura Patterson, taking a nap ...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti heralded a rule change Monday that will allow the construction of skyscrapers with spires or slanted roofs ... make flat-topped structures. The decades-old ...