Alexandria project gallery
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What we did
- Shingle roof replaced on the house
- Shingle roof replaced on the detached garage
- New roof vents installed
At a glance
- Roof
- Gable roofs on the house and detached garage
- Colors
- Owens Corning Duration, Estate Gray, black vents
- Walls
- Pale yellow lap siding
- Setting
- Newer subdivision
What you are looking at
The house is a split-entry design with pale yellow lap siding, a satellite dish on the gable end and a raised back deck with white railings. Behind it sits the detached garage, a smaller gable building with a dark service door, now under the same shingle color as the house.
Along the main ridge, a row of black box vents lets warm attic air escape. The ridge photo shows them spaced evenly just below the peak, with the ridge itself capped in matching gray.
Where a front-facing gable meets the main roof, the valleys are lined with black metal. Photo four looks straight down the gable and shows both valley channels running cleanly to the eave. An open metal valley gives rain and meltwater a smooth path down the roof instead of running across cut shingle edges.
The neighborhood is newer construction with similar bi-level homes, chain-link backyard fences and rows of young evergreens, all visible from the roof on a bright summer day.
Under the Estate Gray color, Duration is built around Owens Corning's SureNail strip, a woven fabric band in the nailing zone that gives each nail more to hold, and Owens Corning rates it for winds up to 130 mph and UL 2218 Class 3 impact. That matters in Alexandria twice a year: in summer storms, and again when snow drifts and melts along the eaves.
