Michigan Roofing Info

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It’s a little known fact that Michigan is one of the most progressive areas when it comes to roofing.  Michigan’s temperature and other weather extremes may be a reason for this.  When it comes to Michigan roofing, if it works in Michigan it works.  That may be one reason why Michigan was the site for the first rubber roof installation way back in 1980.  That roof is still going strong nearly thirty years later, and rubber roofs are coming into wider use all over the United States.

One of the best sources of information for roofs in Michigan is the MRCA or Michigan Roofing Contractors Association.  This groups includes a number of chapters which are the ARCWM,  Associated Roofing Contractors of Western Michigan; the Flint PRO, Professional Roofing Organization; JLWRCA, Jackson, Livingston, Washtenaw Roofing Contractors Association; LRCA, Lansing Roofing Contractors Association; RIPF, Roofing Industry Promotion Fund; SVRCA, Saginaw Valley Roofing Contractor Association; and the SMRCA, Southeastern Michigan Roofing Contractors Association.  The MRCA lists roofing contractors and consultants, has information on roofing, and holds yearly meetings to keep its members up to speed on the latest in roofing techniques and technologies.

Michigan is one of the leading areas when it comes to the use of metal roofing materials.  This includes not only the older tin barn roof style, but the newer styles that mimic the look of other roofing materials.  A metal roofs’ ability to shrink and expand as well as to shed water and snow are tested by Michigan’s cold, snow filled winters and hot summers.  Only a fool would try to walk on a metal roof during a Michigan winter.

Hansons is a Michigan roofing company that prides itself on treating customers as family.  Hansons both honors manufacturer warranties and adds its own warranties to the products they sell.  These include a 10 year guarantee all the way up to a 30 year fully transferable guarantee.

Green roofing is becoming a more popular subject, and Michigan State University leads the way in researching green roofing.  Green roofing means growing plants on a roof to replace the plants destroyed by the building’s footprint.  Soil, plants and even trees are elements of green roofing.  Research continues to determine the benefit of green roofing to the environment, the benefit of green roofing to a roof and a structure, and ways a green roof might harm a roof.

From rubber and metal roofs to trees on roof tops, Michigan roofing is a wild subject to consider.

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