About Roof Online

Roof Online is our informational website dedicated to roofs and roofing. We’re professional roof consultants from the award-winning Connecticut-based Moriarty Corporation (Roofing Technology Experts Since 1967), and we have personal roofing industry experience going back over 40 years.

We noticed how hard it was to find unbiased and really accurate roofing information on the internet. It seems like every internet search for a roofing topic gives you results written by roofing contractors, roofing manufacturers, or roofing supply salesmen. All of them have an inherent conflict of interest as a source of roofing information. Even worse, a lot of roofing articles on the internet are written by people who just churn out content for big websites, without having any specialized roofing experience or genuine knowledge of roofing at all. We thought there should be a reliable and impartial source of high-quality roofing information available to the public, so we created Roof Online.

Roof consultants know a LOT about roofing, and they work for the building owners, not the contractors or the manufacturers, so there’s never a conflict of interest when they provide roofing advice.

The articles on Roof Online are written or reviewed by expert, independent roof consultants.

We’ve been around for a while, and even though we’re a small firm, some of our better-known clients include Yale University, Rockefeller Center, Sotheby’s New York, American Airlines at DFW, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (It’s hard to think of a more important roof than the roof on the Met! We feel pretty good about that one.)

Our professional credentials include the RRO (Registered Roof Observer) and the RRC (Registered Roof Consultant), awarded by IIBEC, the International Institute of Building Enclosure Consultants.

Our consultants have been cited in respected roofing publications such as IIBEC Interface. Our roof specifications have been included for reference in industry standard roofing manuals.

We have comprehensive experience with virtually all aspects of roofing and all kinds of roofing materials.

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We have experience: Designing roof systems. Writing roof system specifications. Project management. Overseeing roof installations from pre-bid to close-out. Providing quality assurance during the work.

Selecting roofing materials. Vetting and selecting roofing contractors. Vetting and selecting roofing manufacturers. Dealing with roof warranty issues.

Investigating roof failures. Investigating roof leaks and directing remedial action. Sometimes we get called in to determine why a roof is leaking after a couple of roofing contractors have tried to figure it out and failed (those jobs are the most fun – it’s like solving a mystery).

Managing roof maintenance programs. Preparing accurate multi-year roof budgets. Advising our clients on when to replace their roof and what kind of roof to replace it with.

In emergencies, making roof repairs, performing maintenance, and installing roofing materials ourselves.

Answering our clients’ questions about a constantly expanding array of roofing topics. In short, being roof experts.

We’ve been involved, in one way or another, with over a thousand different roofs, from historic landmark buildings in New York City to shopping centers in Texas; from giant warehouses in Chicago to Caribbean resorts.

Not to mention the occasional house here and there.

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Our stock-in-trade has always been our specialized knowledge of the building envelope, roofs in particular, and we have to continually educate ourselves in order to keep that knowledge current.

But even with all of our experience and training, we still have to look things up. All the time.

Part of being a good roof consultant is knowing the answer, but a really big part of it is knowing exactly how to FIND the answer.

We thought it would be nice if there were a comprehensive roofing information website that we could trust where we could look up anything we needed to know, but we couldn’t find one. So we decided to create one.

And that’s where this website, Roof Online, came from.

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Meet Roof Online’s Editor

Jack Gray is the creator, main author, and editor of Roof Online.

Mr. Gray is vice president and one of the principal roof consultants at the Moriarty Corporation.

He has more than 25 years of experience in the roofing industry, with training and practical experience in roof safety, codes & standards, general building envelope knowledge, roof design & specification, roof installation, roof inspection, roof quality assurance, roof maintenance & repair, and roof asset management.

He was awarded the Registered Roof Observer (RRO) professional credential in 2009.

He also served as an infantry paratrooper in the 82^nd Airborne Division and received his BA from Cornell University. Read more here.