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Your roof and your foundation are complementary parts of your house. You know the importance of your foundationit supports everything built on it. However, your roof is just as important, because it protects everything underneath it.

Its common knowledge that a higher-quality roof will last longer than a low-quality roof. Its more likely to stand up under the routine wear and tear of sun, wind, and rain whereas lower-quality roofs will wear out sooner, meaning youll have to pay to replace it more often.

When you are looking for a good roof, its important to remember that the roofing materials are only half of what makes a quality roof. Installation is also important. With all the roofing companies out there today you need to make sure that the company you hire can do what they guarantee.

At Precision Roofing & Quality Exteriors we have been protecting homes and families in the Niagara and surrounding areas for over 20 years. Our motto is: if its over your head we can fix it.

Equipped with professional, certified GAF installers we provide you with not only the best warranty in the Region, but the peace of mind that you deserve. Combine that with our experienced certified window, door, eavestrough and siding installers, and we are your one stop exterior specialists.

When you choose Precision Roofing & Quality Exteriors youre choosing prompt and courteous service. We offer written guarantees on all installations, licensed professionals providing every installation and the lowest prices available. We'll match or beat any written estimates from other reputable roofing companies and always ensure satisfaction before you pay.

Give us the chance to help create the quality roof your family deserves. For your free estimate please contact us at the location closest to you.

St. Catharines - 905 646 2500

Welland, 905 734 7283

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Niagara Roofmasters

69 Southworth St N Welland, ON L3B 1Y3 905-735-9572

Niagara Roofmasters started in 1995, after two friends from the local carpentry union decided to expand their services and include roofing repairs to their repertoire.

Fully certified and insured, all the firms employees are professional contractors who have made it their duty to spearhead the roofing community and ensure all jobs are done in a clean and timely manner.

Offering an array of services, from shingle repair to skylight installation, Niagara Roofmasters prides itself on a 10-year guarantee as well as a promising reputation regarding our professional workmanship and expertise in the field.

While roofing repairs and replacements are the companys specialty, it also offers vinyl deck installations and siding to improve the appearance and value of your residential or commercial space. A roof is a large investment but it's the most important one when it comes to protecting your home, so make sure you contact Niagara Roofmasters for a free estimate.

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Cincinnati (PRWEB) June 02, 2014

Leading exterior building products manufacturer, Ply Gem, has partnered with Marsh Building Products to bring the nations first Ply Gem Designed Exterior Showroom to Cincinnati area builders, remodelers, architects and homeowners. Opening to the public on June 16, the Designed Exterior Showroom offers home exterior design ideas, product solutions and tools to simplify the decision-making process. The showroom is located at Marsh Building Products, 715 E. Kemper Avenue, Loveland, Ohio.

The Designed Exterior by Ply Gem is a complete exterior solution, offering nearly every product needed to finish the home, including windows, siding, stone veneer, railing, trim, accents and more all from a single manufacturer. The new showroom brings the Designed Exterior concept to life, helping builders, remodelers, contractors and homeowners generate ideas, find inspiration and make informed exterior design decisions.

With this new showroom, our vision is to make exterior home design more accessible and fun; we want to help customers visualize all that is possible in achieving a dream home design, said Jerry Blais, senior vice president, marketing, Ply Gem siding group. "Were also making it easy to open up the lines of communication between the professional and homeowner, providing all the tools and products needed to have an informed discussion on creating a stunning home exterior you can take pride in.

Interactive displays throughout the showroom help individuals uncover their personal design style, choose color palettes and explore the possibilities of their homes exterior. Using a touch screen monitor or iPad, customers can view before and after home transformations and learn more about how to coordinate exterior design elements including: siding and window styles, colors, textures, and how the right trim package can take your home from ordinary to extraordinary.

The Designed Exterior Showroom is equipped to move homeowners from inspiration to action. Featured palettes line the walls to show how style preferences and color palettes translate into actual products. Worktables filled with product and color swatches allow customers to visualize color combinations and bring their designs to life. To extend the Designed Exterior Showroom experience past the showroom, customers can visualize their own home virtually and receive color printouts of their home designs and selected products, enabling them to easily work with their builder or contractor to order through Marsh Building Products.

"We are excited to partner with Ply Gem in opening the first Designed Exterior Showroom," said Patrick McNickle, general manager, Marsh Building Products. "The showroom is a unique resource designed to help customers explore their options and find inspiration. And we are here every step of the way to support them."

For builders and contractors interested in touring the showroom, Ply Gem and Marsh will host an open house on Tuesday, June 17 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. or 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

An architect open house with AIA certification courses will be held Wednesday, June 18 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. or 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (AIA courses to be held noon-1 p.m. and 4-5 p.m.).

To attend either event, RSVP to whatsnew(at)marshbuild(dot)com or 859-442-6848. For general questions on the showroom, call 513-697-7600.

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Roseburg, OR (PRWEB) June 03, 2014

Romtec, Inc. continues to grow its product offering by now designing, manufacturing, and installing vacation cabins across the country. Romtec is a national market leader in the design and supply of public restrooms and multipurpose park and recreation structures. Now Romtec is also designing and providing vacation cabins as a new addition to its ever expanding product line of public use structures.

Cabins are a natural fit for the design expertise of Romtec. For every building, Romtec considers the particular needs of the project and creates floor plans and engineering documents to meet those needs. On paper Romtec offers four new cabin models, but through its established design-build process, there are limitless possibilities for configuring and constructing cabins for any outdoor venue. This process develops unique buildings and structures that are professionally designed and manufactured.

Each project we do is special, said Mark Sheldon, Vice President of Romtec. Cabins are the perfect product for Romtec because we first work hard to understand what our customers want. Then, Romtec develops each building with unrivaled attention to the details that make each project exceptional.

The cabins will benefit from this same Romtec process. Each cabin is designed as a standard structure. The interior and exterior of a cabin can then be designed with many construction options. These are options such as log siding, stone, shake siding, wood floor, tile, stucco, and more. The same process that has made Romtec successful at supplying restrooms, concession stands, showers, utility buildings, and more can now be used to get cabins.

Over the past few years, Romtec has had success applying its design-build process to a variety of new products. Most recently, the Sidewalk Restroom was developed and offered for the urban restroom market. Prior to that, hand-crafted log pavilions and kiosks were launched as new Romtec products. These all were very successful. The new cabins continue this pattern of product development that continues to help Romtec grow and develop more relationships with parks and communities across country.

Romtec, Inc. is a national designer, manufacturer, and supplier of pre-engineered restroom buildings, recreation structures, and other park utility structures. Romtec provides turnkey installation. Romtec, Inc. is a privately owned company founded in 1977. Romtec, Inc. is located at 18240 North Bank Rd. in Roseburg, Oregon. Romtec can be reached at 541-496-3541 or by visiting http://www.romtec.com.

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Ask professional remodelers, and theyll tell you an exterior replacement project is one of the most valuable improvements a homeowner can complete on a home.

Not only do new exterior siding, windows and doors add to a homes curb appeal and make a favorable first impression on visitors, they have a solid return on investment.

According to a 2014 cost-versus-value report published in Remodeling magazine, more than 70 percent of the cost to replace siding, on average, is recovered when the home is sold. Nationwide, a new steel entry door has an average payback of more than 96 percent of cost, while the cost-value ratio for new windows approaches 80 percent.

Brian Zumhof, owner-operator of Ideal Window, Siding and Doors in Marion, said many of his customers want all three of these projects done at the same time.

A typical exterior home renovation project may include a mixture of siding, natural or cultured stone, and shingles or shakes.

Designers and architects will tell you that three different textures and three different colors make for an attractive home, Zumhof said. Well create a palette for the house that is appealing to the eye.

Zumhof started Ideal in 1991 as a building materials supplier. Over the years, the company evolved into construction and remodeling, with installations now making up 60 percent of the business.

With the exception of stone installation, which is subcontracted to a mason, the company generally handles all the work on a project.

R&P Construction of Cedar Rapids also handles complete home exterior renovations, including siding, windows, doors and decks. Other than some gutter work that is subcontracted, R&P also performs all its own work, co-owner Paul Kaune said.

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After nearly an hour on scene in Pavilion yesterday, I told a chief things seemed under control and I was heading back home to my yard work.

At that point, the two-story commercial and residential structure at the corner of Ellicott Street Road and West Park Street looked fine. There was a faint whiff of smoke in the air, but no smoke showing and certainly no visible fire.

"You might want to stick around," the chief said.

A firefighter told me a few minutes later as he laid out hose from a tanker truck, "this could get really interesting really fast."

Later the chief would tell me, "see, my worst fears came true."

The origin of the fire was in the crawl space of the attic. An area covered in hard wood, spray-in installation and only 18 inches of space in any direction.

First Assistant Chief Sean Vogt said his crew was poking through the ceiling, trying to find the right access point to the smoldering fire and Le Roy's crew had punched a ventilation hole in the roof, then the fire took on a life of its own.

"If we we could have gotten up there, gotten our hose lines up there, wetted it down, maybe we could have saved a little more of the building, but with it going through the roof, it just flashed over on us too fast," Vogt said. "It was just rough."

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By Deborah Neyens, correspondent

Ask professional remodelers, and theyll tell you an exterior replacement project is one of the most valuable improvements a homeowner can complete on a home.

Not only do new exterior siding, windows and doors add to a homes curb appeal and make a favorable first impression on visitors, they have a solid return on investment.

According to a 2014 cost-versus-value report published in Remodeling magazine, more than 70 percent of the cost to replace siding, on average, is recovered when the home is sold. Nationwide, a new steel entry door has an average payback of more than 96 percent of cost, while the cost-value ratio for new windows approaches 80 percent.

Brian Zumhof, owner-operator of Ideal Window, Siding and Doors in Marion, said many of his customers want all three of these projects done at the same time.

A typical exterior home renovation project may include a mixture of siding, natural or cultured stone, and shingles or shakes.

Designers and architects will tell you that three different textures and three different colors make for an attractive home, Zumhof said. Well create a palette for the house that is appealing to the eye.

Zumhof started Ideal in 1991 as a building materials supplier. Over the years, the company evolved into construction and remodeling, with installations now making up 60 percent of the business.

With the exception of stone installation, which is subcontracted to a mason, the company generally handles all the work on a project.

R&P Construction of Cedar Rapids also handles complete home exterior renovations, including siding, windows, doors and decks. Other than some gutter work that is subcontracted, R&P also performs all its own work, co-owner Paul Kaune said.

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Deer Park, NY (PRWEB) May 30, 2014

Barron Designs, a leading supplier of high-quality faux design products used by residential and commercial architects, will be officially debuting a number of new products in Chicago in June.

According to Steve Barron, President of Barron Designs (the parent company of FauxPanels.com and FauxWoodBeams.com), Kim Lewis will be on hand at their tradeshow booth to share creative tips about designing with textures amongst examples of their most popular stone panels, straight and arched beams and columns.

Some of the new products Barron Designs will debut in Chicago include: hundreds of new decorative strap choices for faux wood beams, including customizable options; over 40 new columns, including two-piece columns for a range of stationary and capped columns and larger one-piece columns measuring 16 x 16 and 20 x 20. Barron Designs will also be showcasing a number of new product advancements in their popular Wellington Drystack line, including new interlocking ends for better installation and finished look, 3 new colors (London Gray, Canyon and Washed Bisque) as well as fire-rated options. They have also recently added 5 new arched beam styles, enabling architects and builders more freedom with their designs and easier truss-building capabilities. Most of the new product options will be available to ship in the beginning of June.

Modern fake wood and stone veneer products look amazingly natural because they are molded from real wood beams and real stone and brick walls, and then hand painted to reflect unique, realistic color variations. The molding process captures a variety of natural features, including worm holes (on fake wood products) and weathering (on both wood and stone products). All faux materials are made of non-toxic, high-density polyurethane, which does not contain any harmful chlorofluorocarbons or formaldehyde.

Barron Designs has become an industry leader in realistic, easy-to-install stone veneer panels, columns and faux wood beams by delivering:

Architects often spec Barron Designs product for their commercial and residential projects because the inclusion of modern faux products lowers design and installation expenses without sacrificing style and aesthetics.

Barron Designs has thousands of products, styles and color options to choose from. Their sites feature numerous creative project ideas, client feedback and Before and After photos. They have ample measuring, ordering and installation tips online; and you can reach a member of their attentive Customer Service team by calling 800-651-4223.

# # # About Barron Designs

Barron Designs, Inc., and its subsidiaries FauxPanels.com, FauxWoodBeams.com and FauxColumns.com based in Deer Park, NY - are family-owned home improvement businesses run by sibling entrepreneurs Steve and Ruth Barron.

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