Not that long ago, a roof had one job: keep the weather out. Rain stays up there, life happens down here, end of story. But BC is quietly rewriting that story. New building rules are starting to talk about heat, rainwater, and what happens on the roof in a way we didn’t see ten years ago. Whether you ever plan to grow a garden over your living room or not, that shift is going to shape what “a good roof” means in the next 10–20 years. So what’s actually changing – and what doe

If you’ve ever worked a roof through sideways rain, you learn real quick what materials you can trust and which ones will leave you cursing from the ladder. Here on Vancouver Island, the weather doesn’t “change.” It switches moods. Sun at 9, hail at noon, fog by dinner. That’s why, after decades of patching, sealing, and re-roofing through every kind of coastal chaos, one system still gets the nod from pros who’ve seen it all: EPDM. What It Is and Why It Works EPDM (Ethylene

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