Roofing Blog

Walk through a Bothell living room in November and you will understand why people want skylights. Three thirty in the afternoon, lamps already on, that particular PNW grey pressing against every window. A well-placed skylight changes the entire feel of a home through...

We replaced two roofs last month that were installed the same week in 2009, by the same crew, with the same shingles. One was in Mill Creek and still had years left. The other was in Sultan and was already past due. Same product, same install, very different outcomes,...

There is a particular smell to a cedar roof in early July, sun-warmed shake, a hint of dry resin, that pleasant old-Northwest scent. It is also the smell of a roof that has been quietly drying out for six weeks and is genuinely vulnerable when the sky lights up...

Around the Fourth of July, our phones at Premier Roofing NW start lighting up with the same kind of call from apartment owners and HOA managers: a tenant smelled smoke, a neighbor's mortar tipped sideways, or someone found a scorch mark on a shared walkway the morning...

Driving through Gig Harbor, you see the full spectrum of Pacific Northwest homes — turn-of-the-century cottages tucked above the marina, waterfront properties with serious exposure to wind and salt air, and newer custom builds up on the hills. Each one has different...

Anyone who's lived in Stanwood through a single autumn knows the routine: maple leaves, alder leaves, fir needles, and the occasional pine cone all funneling straight into the gutters until the next downpour reveals exactly which sections have given up. The question...

The summer solstice doesn't get much fanfare around here, but for anyone who works on Pacific Northwest roofs, it's the unofficial starting gun. The clouds finally break, the cedar shakes finally dry out, and the calendar fills up faster than most homeowners expect....

You've found a stain on the bedroom ceiling, or a contractor knocking on your door after the last windstorm has told you "the whole roof needs to go." Now you're stuck wondering whether you genuinely need a full replacement or whether targeted repair will get you...

The first time you notice a stain blooming across the drop ceiling of your Olympia warehouse, the damage on the roof above it has usually been brewing for months. By the time water finds its way through a TPO seam or pools around a clogged scupper, you're already past...