Shaking Up Mountaintop Homes


Mom Nature presents Colorado mountain properties with a particular set of challenges. Heavy snows, wildfire considerations and freezing temperatures are simply a few of them. So rooftops within the Rocky Mountain state have to be able to deal with excessive climate circumstances. That’s why Umbrella Roofing recommends DaVinci Roofscapes merchandise to their shoppers.

“We like placing our identify behind a high quality product,” says Jake Borah, proprietor of Umbrella Roofing out of Eagle, Colorado. “Since 2001 we’ve put in greater than 40 DaVinci roofs a yr. Why? As a result of it’s a high-quality composite roofing product that capabilities very well in excessive mountain altitudes.”

Snow guards on a DaVinci roof help prevent snow avalanches, making it an even more effective high altitude composite roof. Dependable Composite Roofing

One of many firm’s most up-to-date tasks is in Avon, Colorado, on a house excessive up on Beaver Creek Mountain. The present actual cedar shake roof was failing. Plus, the house owner’s insurance coverage firm was getting nervous about persevering with to offer insurance coverage on a wooden roof in an space identified for wildfires.

“The householders got here to us and we didn’t hesitate to advocate a DaVinci Multi-Width Shake roof,” says Borah, a DaVinci Masterpiece Contractor. “The Class A hearth resistant roofing product, with the suitable underlayments, fulfill the insurance coverage necessities. As well as the roof doesn’t endure by means of freeze-thaw conditions, so there’s no leaking.

“DaVinci is a confirmed product. Primarily based on years of expertise with putting in DaVinci on these mountains we all know it holds up very effectively in Colorado circumstances. And, the Black Oak coloration the householders chosen for his or her customized residence seems extraordinarily pure within the wooded setting.”

Award-Profitable Undertaking

For the exemplary work completed in re-roofing the difficult low-slope residence, this challenge from Umbrella Roofing was named as a winner of a 2023 DaVinci Masterpiece Contractor Undertaking of the 12 months Award.

The award is introduced to only a handful of roofers nationwide every year. {Qualifications} are excellence of set up work, excellent visible influence and talent of the roofing work to rework the look of a house.

“We’re enthusiastic about this award,” says Borah. “There’s little doubt that the DaVinci merchandise made a huge effect on this residence. It is a complicated roof system with a lot of dormers, nooks and crannies. There are lots of decrease sloped valleys with massive aspects that slope into them. We took further steps to guarantee the householders will get pleasure from a good roof with no issues.”

One of many further steps taken was to put in a whole snow retention system from Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. With the extreme snowfall within the excessive elevation, melting snows can generally avalanche off artificial roofs. The mix of putting in snow guards and a snow rail system will assist stop that scenario and preserve the household safer.

“Each the DaVinci and Rocky Mountain Snow Guards merchandise enable Umbrella Roofing to current a reliable, practical and top of the range roofing system for our shoppers,” says Borah. “Whereas vastly bettering the aesthetics of this residence, this new roofing system additionally offers the householders peace of thoughts for many years into the long run.”