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John McKenzie House – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

By     Feb 22nd, 2018
John McKenzie House, built in 1913 for the McKenzie family who moved to the Willowdale area and established a grain and cattle farm on 144 acres. As Toronto started to grow and spread out, John McKenzie saw the opportunity to sell off some of the land creating a subdivision.

6 Tips to get the best slate roof quote

By     Feb 12th, 2018
What is the color and is it unfading, semi-weathering or weathering? If you need to replace a few pieces of slates, it’s important that you try to match the new slates with the existing slates. You may need to remove a piece and check the back side to see what the original color was.

What underlayment for slate roof?

By     Jan 29th, 2018
Traditionally, a slate roof will have #30 (thirty-pound) asphalt saturated organic felt unperforated roof underlayment. Required by many building codes, a slate roof’s underlayment serves many purposes and application may vary depending on thicknesses of slate, weather conditions of the area and size of slate.