Tin roof repair homestead nine years later Tin roof repair: Nine years later Tin roof repairs applied nine years earlier illustrate three important details in this restoration field. Before describing those three items, a word should be made ascribing credit … Continue reading
Category Archives: Embossed tin shingle
Kings Mountain Ormand House, with its traditional red shingles. Red shingle roof in Carolinas The Ormand House in Kings Mountain, NC, project illustrates restoration details such as the following: New metal shingles combined with old ones Owners of old shingle … Continue reading
Buying shingles for National Register of Historic Places homestead in Carolinas Buying shingles for National Register mansion Buying new shingles and incorporating them into a project is hardly unusual. In this project, the owner decided the upper roofs’ shingles just … Continue reading
Witch hat in Asheville’s historic district. Witch hat in Asheville, NC In Asheville’s historic district, a vintage witch hat crowns this mansion. Like most traditional witch hats, the roofing consisted of tin shingles, often in a smaller size than is … Continue reading
Church shingles AFTER the work was performed by Roof Menders, Inc Church shingles in Virginia: new and rusting The episcopal church reroofed their church with Berridge shingles only recently. Then rust began to appear. The local historical representative, along with … Continue reading
Green metal shingles on a hilltop near Flint Hill, VA Near Flint Hill on a hilltop, my crew coated these old shingles with modern coatings. The porch roof was covered with a fully reinforced system. For more photos, see this … Continue reading
Rusty roof over a home on the National Register of Historic Sites Rusty tin shingle roof in Maryland The lady of this historical place on the National Register just loves her rusting roof. Both she and her husband remember the … Continue reading
Black stamped shingle roof Black shingle roof in Carolina mountains The black stamped shingle design over the Windover Inn in Waynesville, NC, possesses a design rarely seen. In fact, for about ten years I only noted the Imperial design approximately … Continue reading
Red shingles embossed: The lady makes a statement In 2004, this photo captures our work of coating the shinges in traditional green Nine years ago in Huntingtown, MD, we coated this embossed tin shingle roof with green acrylic. At the … Continue reading
Antique and Berridge modern shingles: side by side Berridge modern shingles on left; traditional shingles on right Where to buy metal shinglesThose owners of traditional embossed tin shingle roofs sometimes ask about the appearance of a modern version of the … Continue reading