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Category: Winter-Ready Roofing

Autumn Savings: Protect What Matters Most With New Exterior Upgrades

A two-story house with a wraparound porch and brown siding sits behind a lawn and garden beds. Bright autumn trees with red and orange leaves frame the scene, offering natural shade—one of many energy savings tips—under a clear blue sky.

It’s fall and homeowners are still searching for roofing, siding, and window companies in Massachusetts to upgrade their homes. As a family-owned and operated business, Coastal Windows & Exteriors is looking to help improve homes with our current promotion. Our goal is to help you find home improvement loans to make a cozy and beautiful […]

Beyond The Shingles: A Look Inside a High-Performance Roofing System

A two-story house with tan siding, stone accents, multiple gables, and a GAF roofing brown shingled roof. Several windows have white trim and maroon shutters. Trees and blue sky are visible in the background.

From the outside, a roof appears as a layer of shingles. However, there is a lot going on inside of a high-performance GAF roofing system. Homeowners need to consider all components of the roof to get the best value, including parts that are hidden from sight. Let’s take a look beyond the shingles. What makes […]

3 Energy-Efficient Exterior Upgrades You Can do This Winter

A worker in a plaid shirt and blue overalls installs or repairs a white-framed window indoors, holding it open and looking focused on the task—part of energy-efficient exterior upgrades.

There’s no doubt about it that spring, summer, and early autumn are popular times for exterior remodeling. However, New England homeowners tend to bypass window replacement and other energy-efficient exterior upgrades projects based on myths or bad advice. The truth is that you can remodel the exterior of your home in the winter. The key […]

4 Exterior Winter Weather Woes That Cause Energy Loss

A beige two-story house with green shutters, replacement windows, a red brick chimney, and snow covering the roof, yard, and trees. A white picket fence and steps lead to the front door; another house is visible in the background.

Winter can be a beautiful time of year here in New England, but if you’re not prepared, it can also cause some major headaches for your home as well as energy loss.  There are a lot of common winter weather woes that you need to keep in mind, helping you to prevent issues ranging from […]

How to Tell if Your Roof is Damaged (And When it’s Time to Replace)

A close-up of a roof with gray asphalt shingles, some lifted and not lying flat—a clear sign to address during your spring home maintenance to prevent further weather damage or issues from improper installation.

How to Tell if Your Roof is Damaged (And When it’s Time to Replace) Your roof takes a significant impact from the elements every day of the year, ranging from intense heat to freezing rain. A damaged roof can pose plenty of problems—some big, some small, but they must be addressed before an insignificant amount […]

Can Your Roof Handle the Next Major Winter Storm?

Icicles hang from the edge of a snow-dusted wooden roof—a familiar sight during winter roofing in New England—with a blurred, snowy landscape and bare tree in the background.

When there’s news of an impending winter storm, many of us take stock of the food in our cupboards. We’ll run off to the store in a hurry to buy milk and bread along with flashlights, matches, and candles. But there is one common element we don’t think about during the hype of a snowstorm: […]

How Do Ice Dams Form?

Diagram illustrating the formation of ice dams on roofs. Labeled steps detail how snow melts, cold air removes heat, leading to ice dam and icicle formation, and water leaks through shingles. Text at the bottom reads, How Ice Dams Form.

Ice dams form when… your roof is poorly insulated and ventilated, allowing your attic and roof to heat up and melt snow that has collected on your roof. When the snow on your roof melts, it trickles down and freezes back into ice, typically at your home’s soffit (the underside of your eaves) or by the […]

The Best Exterior Home Projects for Fall

A two-story gray house with white trim, a front porch with steps, black shutters, and an American flag. Pumpkins decorate the porch steps—a classic setting for fall home improvement or exterior home projects in the crisp autumn air.

Need a fall home maintenance checklist to keep yourself on track before winter arrives? You’re making a wise choice for improving your home during the fall season. If you haven’t heard, Farmers’ Almanac is predicting a snowy, bone-chilling winter in New England for the 2021-2022 season. Not to mention, natural gas prices have risen by […]

10 Tips to Minimize Your Home’s Energy Loss

A person uses a caulking gun to seal the edge of a white window frame, applying caulk along the joint to minimize energy loss and prevent drafts—one of several essential energy saving tips for any home.

  No matter the season here in New England, it’s important to minimize your home’s energy loss as much as possible.  Every homeowner knows that our region goes from sizzling summers to being slammed with months of relentless snow and cold temperatures. Now is the time to seal up all the gaps that can cause […]