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…
You can appreciate how a properly installed roof protects your house, but it can also serve as a source of water that can be saved for the driest months. If you’re concerned about your roof and the environment, read on to see how your roof can collect rainwater for your yard and fruit trees during…
When the Santa Ana winds blow through the San Gabriel Valley, you can see leaves, limbs and roofing shingles scattered down the streets and in your yard. It’s understandable that you could think about how well your roof will do when those windy gusts blast through. Guess what? A roof that’s installed properly will…
Hey everyone! Been a while! Like… two years a while… There, sadly, is not much to say in roofing. It’s a pretty straightforward thing. But, thankfully, now there IS something to talk about! It’s called Title 24, or “The California Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards” or TCT24EES for short! EDIT – Nevermind that last…
Greetings, oh so few of you! Been a while, as usual. Not much interesting or ground breaking stuff going on really, other than the usual fixing/replacing of roofs and other things related to roofs. Speaking of- We were called in for an estimate to re-roof a house that was being remodeled maybe a month ago…
Hey everyone! Been a while… as there hasn’t been much to say really. We’ve been plodding along… until… RAIN! Torrential downpour rain. Noah’s Flood rain. Waiting-for-that-mudslide rain. Tons of people calling us because their roof is leaking… rain. Yeah, we’re busy. And no, we can’t come out RIGHT NOW. Sorry… really. If you (probably don’t)…
Here at Garvey Roofing Inc., we don’t just do roofing. We also do insulation, solar panels, and rain gutter installations. Furthermore, we also do general contracting. The reason why we have a general contracting license is because we know, when it comes to roofing, there’s more than just putting a roof on a house. There’s…
Here at Garvey Roofing Inc. we get calls from people who are asking for either inspections or estimates on houses that are being sold. We get quite a few calls for these because we give free estimates, which people take to mean that we also do free inspections as well, which we don’t, and here’s…
Hey everyone! All…. two of you…. three? Been a while. My creative sparkplug has not been firing as of late. It’s been odd here, what with summer and people saying “Eh, I’ll do it later” with their roofs. Funny story, kind of. Interesting at least: Fourth of July rolled around (yes, two months ago… 174…