by Total Exteriors | Oct 15, 2026 | Exterior Restoration
After a big dump of wet spring snow, it is a fair question to ask while you look up at the roof: how much snow can a roof hold before it becomes a problem? In Calgary the answer is reassuring for most houses, but it depends far more on the type of snow than on how...
by Total Exteriors | Oct 8, 2026 | Exterior Restoration
A thick ridge of ice along the eaves, icicles as long as your arm, and then a brown stain spreading across the ceiling near an outside wall. That is an ice dam, and in Calgary, where chinooks melt the snow on your roof and a cold snap freezes it again a day later,...
by Total Exteriors | Sep 30, 2026 | Exterior Restoration
If your roof has been replaced after one Calgary hailstorm, you have probably wondered whether the next one will do the same thing. Impact resistant shingles are designed to take hail better than standard asphalt shingles, and in a city that sits in one of the most...
by Total Exteriors | Sep 30, 2026 | Exterior Restoration
The hail adjuster has approved your claim, or the roof has finally started leaking, and the calendar says November. Can you replace a roof in winter in Calgary, or do you have to live with tarps and buckets until spring? The short answer is yes, a roof can be replaced...
by Total Exteriors | Aug 31, 2026 | Exterior Restoration
It happens on the mildest day of the month. The temperature swings twenty degrees overnight, and suddenly there is water dripping from a ceiling light, a stain spreading across a bedroom ceiling, or a damp patch around the bathroom fan. You call a roofer expecting to...
by Total Exteriors | Aug 31, 2026 | Exterior Restoration
The hail stops, you walk outside, and the roof looks fine from the driveway — so you do nothing. That single decision costs Calgary homeowners more money than the storm itself. Filing a hail damage roof insurance claim correctly, and quickly, is the difference between...
