Month: March 2021

• 23 March 2021
• Ernie Cecchetto

Sometimes when I’m sitting around a table with a bunch of friends, I start a conversation off by asking: “Have you ever heard of designed obsolescence?” And so begins a tirade about how refrigerators and dishwashers are programmed to stop working after six years! But most people don’t really think about it much. They simply, unscrew that light bulb and replace it with another one.

• 9 March 2021
• Ernie Cecchetto

When companies self-assess their roofing systems, they often look at the surface and draw some fairly dramatic conclusions. The roofing industry has created scary terms such as; Blistering, ridges, alligatoring, mud curling and crazing, to describe typical membrane defects.