Muskoka · Cottage Country
Standing seam roofs built for Muskoka cottages
A cottage roof lives a hard life — 2 metres of snow on the north face, ice damming at every valley, and nobody there in February to shovel it off. Standing seam is the roof cottage country has quietly moved to for the last decade.
Why standing seam belongs on a cottage
Muskoka roofs have to survive a cycle asphalt shingles were never engineered for: heavy wet snow, ice-and-melt over unheated attics, summer UV off open lake, and pine sap. A 24-gauge premium-finished standing seam roof handles all of it and typically outlives two generations of asphalt.
Snow behaves differently on standing seam
The vertical seam and slick painted finish shed snow in slabs. On a cottage that means less structural load, less risk of ice damming, and far less chance of a mid-winter collapse. The smooth continuous surface lets snow slide before it loads the deck — critical for Ontario winters.
Areas we serve in cottage country
Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, Huntsville, Port Carling, Bala, Rosseau, Windermere, Parry Sound, Haliburton, Bancroft, Wasaga Beach and Georgian Bay from Collingwood to Tobermory.
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