Three eras of Georgetown house, three different roofs
Georgetown grew in distinct stages and it shows from the street. The Main Street core dates to the 1820s and 1830s mill village and the commercial blocks that followed later in the century — several of those buildings are heritage-designated and the streetscape is protected in character if not always in law. Delrex, the town’s oldest subdivision, was built in the 1950s by Rex Heslop, the developer behind Rexdale, with Moore Park following in 1962; between them they gave Georgetown a large stock of ranch bungalows, split-levels and colonial revival houses. Georgetown South is the newest layer, opened on farmland below Silver Creek from 1989. A roof recommendation that ignores which of those three a house belongs to is a guess, not advice.
Bungalows and split-levels are the easiest roofs we do
The 1950s and 1960s stock in Delrex and Moore Park has an advantage the 2000s subdivisions do not: simple roof geometry. Long, uninterrupted planes with few valleys, dormers or changes of pitch are faster to install, have fewer detail points where water and wind can find a way in, and generally make the cleanest-looking finished metal roof. It is a genuine technical point rather than a sales one — complexity, not size, is what makes a roof difficult. If you own a Delrex bungalow, you own close to the ideal candidate for a steel roof.
How we work here
Our crews cover Georgetown along with Milton, northern Mississauga and Caledon, and Colum attends the site visit and writes the quote himself. Select Metal Roofing has been an exclusive Ideal Roofing dealer since 2011, and the same certified crews have done the work throughout. Our work here is full roof replacement — tear-off or layover, typically three to four days on site, finishing with a magnetic nail sweep of the property.