Roofing in the Greater Vancouver region has become one of the fastest growing construction trades in the region. With the construction booms of the last 30 years, the time has come for a large portion of the community to get their roofs changed.

In Vancouver a large portion of the roofs out there are asphalt and a large portion are cedar. Both are available to the average home owner with asphalt being the more popular for re-roofing and cedar being the more popular for new construction. Most of the roofing contractors who are registered roofing companies specialise in the laminate fibreglass shingles and do a lot of cedar conversions. The cedar to cedar re-roofing is not all that common due to the weak warranties and the more affordable asphalt shingle appeals to many who need a new roof.

Although cedar is common not all that many crews in the Greater Vancouver region specialise in installing this product. Generally the installers are attached to the mill that splits the shakes, and they will have a relationship with a new construction company. Some roofing crews specialise in flat roofing. If they have been in this particular business for more than 5 years they are probably reliable. Metal and tar and gravel fill these categories too.

The average roofer in the Metro Vancouver region is professional and does meet the minimum requirements to perform a job without any negative consequence. Consumers in the Metro Vancouver region are pretty savvy with the Internet giving a person with a bad reputation the inability to last very long. With their registered company name, which is something one should look out for. It is known that some companies have the bad habit of changing their names quite often in order to avoid warranty calls and BBB black eyes.

Some roofers who are new to the environment in Vancouver might offer a service they are not all too familiar with and it is best to ask if they have done any homes near yours and go see their work. You could may be even knock the home owner's door and ask what their experience with the roofer was.