Extending the Life of Your Metal Roof: Cleaning, Fasteners, and Sealants
A metal roof is the part of your building doing the most work and getting the least attention. It takes sun, rain, hail, snow, temperature swings, and falling debris, and it does it silently until something leaks. By then the fix is usually more involved than the prevention would have been. The good news is […]
Annual Maintenance Checklist for Your Metal Building (What to Inspect and When)
Metal buildings ask very little of their owners, and that’s the trap. Low maintenance gets treated as no maintenance, and five or ten years later the small stuff has compounded. The whole maintenance load for a typical steel structure in Mount Airy, NC, is a couple of hours a year, split across seasons. Do it […]
Storm Readiness: How to Prepare Your Metal Building for Severe Weather
Steel handles weather well, which is exactly why owners stop thinking about it. The building goes up, it shrugs off a few thunderstorms, and it drops off the maintenance list. Then a line of severe storms comes through with straight-line winds, or an ice storm loads the roof, and the small things nobody checked become […]