You’re driving home along the 210 freeway with dark clouds over the San Gabriel Mountains and you wonder about fixing the leak in your roof. That’s normal. Homeowners and business owners from Pasadena and Arcadia to Bradbury and Baldwin Park usually aren’t in a hurry to repair or replace their roofs. A roof is often…
Roofing is a trade and craft. Sure, there are friends who get together to help a buddy and over a nice weekend they’ll tear off an old roof and put on a new one. After all, you can buy roofing materials at several different locations in the San Gabriel Valley like the Home Depot locations…
If you look at homes in the neighborhoods around Pasadena High School, you see a variety of roofing materials: tile, multi-dimensional shingles, and the traditional 3-tab shingles. You’ll also find some houses with lower-sloped or what we call flat-roof material, too. Here’s a suggestion—if you’re considering a new roof, drive around your neighborhood or look…
Thomas Garvey is a roofing contractor in the San Gabriel Valley who went up on roofs in his teenage years to learn a trade and make money. The work was tough, but he enjoyed completing projects with the roofing company that employed him. He learned everything he could about the roofing trade and after…
Do you have plans to add a bonus room or add to the space in your commercial office in a way that impacts your roof? It’s an important question since COVID is changing the office environment and home offices are becoming more valuable than ever. Traffic is picking up as retail stores, gyms and offices…
Throughout the San Gabriel Valley, low slope or flat roof homes are common and have a wide variety of roofing styles and materials. In this blog post, I use both the terms low slope roof and flat roof since that’s a common reference. Parapet roofs are common in Alhambra, San Gabriel and parts of Pasadena,…
Okay, so you’re wondering how to choose and hire a roofing contractor in the San Gabriel Valley Who do you trust? Who do you go with? You can even get three roofing estimates and yet still wonder if you’ve made the right choice. Here are ways to vet a roofing contractor—or any contractor for a…
Your roof does more than simply protect your house from rain. It’s a covering that plays a critical role in making your home energy efficient. That’s why Garvey Roofing creates a roof for all seasons. A roof can also act as “your heating and cooling system’s biggest nightmare,” as mentioned on the Green Home Guide…
If you live in a historic bungalow-style home in a city like Pasadena or Monrovia or want to install solar panels then you can appreciate the variety of roofing systems in the San Gabriel Valley. Expertise is needed to install and repair homes and buildings that are now over one hundred years old to today’s…
Do you want a solar roof to power your home’s energy usage in the San Gabriel Valley? California now has one million solar roofs installed as noted in a celebration in December 2019. Let’s take a closer look at what’s happening with solar roofing in the state and what solar roofs mean for homeowners in…