I hear you on the “boring” front—after my last roof leak, I’d take a plain ol’ shingle over anything fancy. But I keep wondering if anyone’s actually ...

Had the same thing happen after a gnarly hailstorm last year—looked like someone dumped a bag of aquarium gravel in my gutters. From what I’ve seen, s...

Had a similar adventure with the “eco” stuff last fall. My neighbor swore by it, so I figured, why not? Anything’s better than the blue tarp look I ha...

I put micro-mesh on the back gutters last fall, mostly because my neighbor’s pine tree seems to think my house is its personal compost bin. They do ca...

Funny you mention copper flashing—I had a run-in with squirrels myself a couple years back. Thought I'd outsmart them by installing copper flashing ar...

I've noticed the same thing—got some reclaimed sheets a couple years back that looked great initially, but man, they aged faster than my knees after y...

Funny you mention plants as just "icing on the cake"... I actually had a weirdly opposite experience. A few years back, my attic was dripping like cra...

Honestly, sometimes I wonder if the whole "glued-down" thing isn't just manufacturers being sneaky but also about making things slimmer and prettier. ...

Yeah, installation can definitely make or break things. Reminds me of when I patched up my shed roof with some leftover metal panels—looked solid enou...

Totally agree about sticking to one reliable system. Had turbines on my old place, and man, those things were drama queens—one gusty night and it soun...

Had solar panels put on a few years back, and honestly, the installers spent more time measuring angles than my math teacher did in high school geomet...