Dwell Magazine recently featured a story about a job that had to have been accomplished by some pretty savvy roofing contractors in Austin, TX. The entire roof of a small house was ripped off and ...

Q: I enjoyed the article about puddling on flat roofs (Nov. 2, 2002). I have a slope problem on a 12-by-10-foot one-story addition attached at one edge to a higher wall of my split-level house. It is ...

The roof position is one of the most difficult and dangerous, yet it’s also critical. Roof firefighters are the eyes and ears of the incident commander (IC), as well as all of their brother and sister ...

Our latest Dezeen guide explores seven types of roofs, including hip roofs, sawtooth roofs and vaulted roofs. At their most basic, roofs are a cover to protect a building against the weather. While ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Lowe Larretta is former lead editor for Forbes Home, covering all things ...

Most homeowners have to deal with a roof replacement once, maybe twice, in their lifetimes, unless they tend to bounce from poorly roofed house to poorly roofed house just for the excitement of ...