In this episode of the makeover series, we install a new flat roof with a slight pitch and work on the electrical setup to ...

Covering low-slope and flat roofs used to be one of stinkiest procedures in all of construction. That’s stinkiest literally, as in steaming buckets of hot tar with an odor something between ...

The most commonly used materials for flat roofs are torch-on felts, EPDM rubberised roofing, fibreglass glass reinforced plastic (GRP) and single ply membranes, which are usually sheet rubber ...

Liqui-Ply is an elastic roof coating that can be applied to flat or built-up roofs, asphalt-shingled roofs, barn roofs, roof decks and other surfaces. A variety of Liqui-Ply is also available for ...

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 ...

Most roofs’ rafters are set 2 feet apart and the plywood decking should be a minimum of 7/16 of an inch thick. To reduce costs, some builders choose to use a thinner plywood deck that is only 5/ ...