Roof styles have gone through a lot of significant changes over the years. Who can forget the 1950s contemporary houses that sported flat roofs? Then there were “Cape Cods” with the doghouse dormers ...

Q. I live in a ranch-style house. Two years ago, I had a new felt tile roof installed together with some of the underlying wood sheeting because some of the wood had rotted. Insulation is in the ...

Q. The last storms loaded my gutters with icicles. Some were big and fat and 2 feet long, and a potential hazard. In places where there are no gutters at all, I still got icicles. There were no ...

Q: Even though we have done a good deal of work to increase energy efficiency in our 1960 split-level home in San Carlos, we are having a difficult time keeping the warm air inside the house during ...