Rice project gallery
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What we did
- Shingle roof replaced
- Brown box vents installed in a row along the ridge
- Valley metal set where the front gable meets the main roof
At a glance
- Roof
- Split-level gable roof
- Colors
- Owens Corning Duration, Brownwood
- Walls
- Beige vinyl siding
- Setting
- Fenced yard in town
What you are looking at
The house has beige vinyl siding, an attached garage on one end and a stained wood deck off the upper level in back. In the low morning light, the new roof looks almost copper from the street side.
The ridge photo shows the row of box vents set just under the peak, all in the same brown as the shingles. Each vent lets hot air out of the attic, and setting them high on the roof puts them where that air collects.
The vent close-up shows one of them up close: a brown metal hood on a wide flange, with the shingle course above lapped down over the top edge and the course below running under it.
From the peak, the photographer looked down the front gable, where two strips of bright valley metal run from the ridge to the eave. Water from both slopes collects in those channels on its way to the gutter.
The back yard has a privacy fence, a rock garden and a small patio with chairs. The street beyond is lined with similar homes and young trees.
A roof this size goes quickly on a clear day, but the details still take time: each vent hood, the valleys and the ridge cap all have to be laid so water always runs over the next piece down, never under it.
What sits under the Brownwood granules is SureNail, a woven reinforcing strip in the nailing zone that helps Duration hold in winds up to 130 mph, and the shingle carries a UL 2218 Class 3 impact rating. On a Rice roof, a shingle that stays nailed flat in summer wind is also one that keeps drifting snow and meltwater from getting under the edges.
