Image Credits

Every photograph here is released under a public domain dedication. Attribution is not legally required for any of them; we credit anyway.

Photography

ImageCreditLicenceSource
Complex standing seam roof with hips, valleys and snow retention
Cropped to a landscape band and resized.
Wikideas1 CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication) Source
Standing seam roof with an asphalt roof visible nearby
Cropped and resized.
Wikideas1 CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication) Source
Metal roof mid snow-release, with retention bars
Resized.
Wilfredor CC0 (public domain dedication) Source
Icicles at an eave
Cropped and resized.
Tomwsulcer CC0 (public domain dedication) Source

These are not photographs of our own work, and we do not present them as such. They are licensed images chosen because they show the things this site argues about — panel runs and valleys, snow releasing in sheets, retention bars, ice at an eave. Where a caption describes what is happening in a picture, it describes that picture.

Illustrations

The fifty-year timeline graphic and the site mark are original work produced for this site and are not derived from any third-party image.

Data

Every cost figure, service life and pitch factor is attributed on the cost page, with a note on what each figure covers and what our fifty-year comparison deliberately leaves out.

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  • Every cost figure we publish is sourced and dated
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  • We quote the roof, not the footprint — complexity is priced openly
  • Deck repair rate agreed before tear-off, not discovered during it
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