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If you have decided on an asphalt roof for your San Juan Islands home, you still face one more fork in the road: architectural shingles or 3-tab. They come from…

Metal is the smartest long-term roof for the San Juan Islands. It shrugs off wind-driven rain, resists moss, and stands up to salt air far better than asphalt. …

An asphalt shingle roof is the most common roof in the San Juan Islands, and for good reason: it is affordable, widely available, and straightforward to repair.…

If you own a home in the San Juan Islands, you already know the ferry runs your life a little. It decides when you buy groceries, when guests arrive, and when t…

Your roof does far more than keep the rain out. In the San Juan Islands, where mild but persistent damp weather rules most of the year, the roof is one of the b…

Your roof does far more than keep the rain out. In the San Juan Islands, where mild but persistent damp weather rules most of the year, the roof is one of the b…

A roof leak on the San Juan Islands rarely announces itself where it starts. Water enters at a failed flashing or a cracked fastener, travels along the undersid…

If a roof has a weak point, it is almost never the wide-open field of shingles or panels. It is the transitions, the places where the roof meets a wall, a chimn…