Roofing Companies Boca Raton - Does Your Roofing Company Participate In An Asphalt Recycling Program?

(prHWY.com) January 28, 2013 - Florida, FL -- Florida, Jan 28, 2013 - Does your roofing company participate in an asphalt recycling program? It never hurts to ask. You may be bringing an environmentally friendly practice to their attention that they weren't even aware of. But if you're selecting a roofing company on the basis of their recycling efforts, buyer beware: Be sure to unearth whether the costs of transporting the old shingles to a recycling center are being absorbed by the roofing company and are not being passed on to you, the customer. Because only the actual shingles and nails can be recycled, sometimes extra work is required of your roofing contractors.

Roofing Company Palm Beach County - Well, if your roof is made of asphalt shingles, there's some eco-friendly good new for you. Those shingles can be recycled into asphalt that can be used to build and repair the roads you drive on every day. According to a recent special to the Daily Graphic, "The upkeep of roads and the mass production of asphalt is believed to have a carbon footprint comparable to that of the oil industry." As a result, the manufacturing process can wreak havoc on the environment.

But what if that asphalt didn't have to be made from scratch and could be obtained from asphalt that's already in existence? That's where your roofing company and your old roof shingles can make a real difference. A new initiative, dubbed Roofs to Roads, is embracing the recycling of roofing shingles. Roofing companies that make use of this recycling program significantly "reduce their impact on landfills from old shingles." And that green friendliness is likely to be even more measurable than if first appears when you consider that the average roof is made up of two to three layers of asphalt.

Roofing company scams are one of the biggest home improvement fraud offenders, with unscrupulous practices like charging for work that is not actually performed and taking deposits on a roof repair and then skipping town running rampant in storm-damaged communities these days.

Roof Leak Repair Palm Beach County - If you have a small repair to do, regardless of whether it is on your home or if you're repairing an RV roof, you must go beyond the area that directly needs repaired. Cutting into the good wood before replacing it, or perhaps the metal on the top of your trailer can help to ensure that the repair is going to last for the long term. If you only try to fix the immediate area where the problem resides, there may be hidden issues that will eventually show themselves and you will end up having to do the repair all over again.

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