Five key trends were identified for the snow retention industry. The leadership at Rocky Mountain Snow Guards, Inc. has identified five key trends moving into 2026 for the snow retention industry. Brian Cross, Operations Manager for the Colorado-based company, identifies the trends as: Trend #1 As solar panel installation increases on homes, ...
By Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. Check out the winners of the 2025 "Show Us Our Snow Guards" contest! Metal roofs dominated the “winner’s circle” in the 2025 “Show Us Our Snow Guards” Contest this year. There were eight total awards given out, and six of them were for snow retention systems on ...
By Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. Learn how this contractor helped a hotel and won a prize along the way. It was almost too easy. According to Nick Piontek with On Point Contracting, he simply asked the hotel manager at WoodSpring® Suites Hotel in Littleton, Colorado if snow avalanching off the roof ...
This is the second year in a row that Umbrella Roofing has won an award in the competition. Adding RG16 snow guards to the distinctive “cut up” roof belonging to Baker family in Arrowhead, Colorado, has earned Umbrella Roofing a Runner Up Prize in the residential category of the 2025 “Show ...
Using a snow retention system for the first time from Rocky Mountain Snow Guards was all it took to capture a runner up prize in the commercial category! Call it beginner’s luck. When Rock-N-Road Construction submitted an entry on a whim in the 2025 “Show Us Our Snow Guards” Contest, they ...
The spectacular home, located in Lincoln, Nebraska, includes multi-faceted roofing. The stunning roofing on a custom home in Nebraska includes both standing seam metal and composite slate. Ensuring the snow retention system works seamlessly across both surfaces without disrupting the design flow has earned White Castle Roofing a Runner Up ...
To determine the best system to install on the 10/12 slope roof, Dino Ruffoni, owner of Gem City Roofing, relied on the free layout service from Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. After installing more than a half mile of snow retention materials to the metal roof on the Ford Wyoming Center, Gem ...
For the new home project Fread contacted Rocky Mountain Snow Guards and used their free layout service to determine what snow retention product to use and where placement of the product should go. With an average of 400 inches of snowfall a year, the city of Big Sky, Montana could easily ...
Sponsored by Rocky Mountain Snow Guards, the contest recognizes exceptional commercial and residential snow retention projects each year from across the nation. Adding a copper standing seam roof and a dark bronze snow fence system to the amenity-filled Tyrolean Condo units in Vail, Colorado gave the entire development an upgraded look. ...
Home Grown Contracting is the recipient of a $2,000 cash prize as the winner of the Grand Prize in the Residential Projects category in this year’s competition. Transforming a cedar shake roof to a composite shake roof not only gained Home Grown Roofing & Contracting a 5-star Google review from the ...