Metal Roofing Alliance (MRA)
Grow Your Roofing Business
By Marco Industries. Want to grow your metal roofing business? MRA Executive Director Renee Ramey offers some tips in a recent article. While spring and summer can typically keep you busy with renovations, re-roofs and storm damage repair, fall is often a time when the roofing trade slows down a bit. ...
Three Cases for Metal Roofs
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. Homeowners share why they switched to metal roofs and the benefits of their new roofs. Editor’s note: Share these stories with your customers who are considering a metal roof, and download the free buyer's guide as support for your sales efforts. Three separate couples decided to replace ...
2020 Home Trends: Recession-Resistant Renovations
By Metal Roofing Alliance. MRA offers three keys to home improvement investments during economic uncertainty. With talk of recession looming, homeowners are re-evaluating home renovation projects that may make the most sense—and dollars—in an uncertain economy. While concerned homeowners tend to pull back on extras and luxury upgrades when times get tougher, experts ...
Buying a Metal Roof 101
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. The Metal Roofing Alliance provides a buyer’s guide with everything your customers need to know when purchasing a metal roof. Roofs protect us, help keep us warm and cool depending on the season, and shelter us from the elements. Although I’m new to the industry, I ...
In a Hot Housing Market, Maximizing Curb Appeal Starts Right at the Top
By Metal Roofing Alliance. Choosing the right roof to highlight a home’s architectural style is an investment that pays off. The roof plays a major role in a home’s curb appeal, yet surprisingly, it’s often the area most overlooked by homeowners. There’s no doubt that a solid roof is key for resell value ...
Time For Some TLC: MRA Declares "Love Your Roof" Week, Beginning Oct. 6
The week is intended to call attention to the important role roofs play in protecting homes and encourage homeowners to give their roofs some TLC. Most homeowners are grateful for the roof over their heads. Yet home experts say that roofs are often one of the most neglected areas of the ...
Metal Roofing is an Increasingly Popular Option
By Lauren White. Standing seam metal roofs reduce waste, are cost-effective, and give homes a modern look. What’s trending in modern homeownership? Standing seam metal roofs. They are visually appealing, cost-effective, low-maintenance, and environmentally friendly. Typically seen on commercial and agricultural buildings, more and more homeowners are choosing this option ...
Women in Construction at METALCON 2019
The conference will feature a Women in Metal and Roofing panel presentation. METALCON 2019, the metal construction industry’s largest international event for metal construction products, technologies and solutions, is featuring an interactive panel presentation by leading women in the metal and roofing industries on Wednesday, October 16 at 1.00 p.m., at ...
Don’t Do Your Customers' Neighborhoods A Disservice: Help Them Update Their HOA Design Standards For 2020
By Metal Roofing Alliance. MRA offers information to educate your customers' HOAs and offer a visualization tool to help them 'see' the beauity of metal roofs. “Metal roofs simply will not work with our neighborhood’s architectural design standards.” Statements like this reflect a lingering problem that HOAs across the country face: How ...
Threat of Freak Hailstorms is Rising: Homeowners are Taking Cover with Impact-resistant Metal Roofs
MRA is offering a free comprehensive buyer's guide that contractors can offer to homeowners considering metal roofs. As the baseball-sized hail stones that ravished parts of Minnesota proved recently, massive storms can happen anytime and nearly anywhere this time of year, especially in the Midwest, Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain states. Hail ...
