Kleinburg and Maple still have plenty of older houses with roofs to match. Thornhill Woods and Vellore Village are almost entirely newer. Highland works across all four, and the honest answer to which profile suits a house usually comes down to the roof's pitch and how much of it you actually see from the street.
Kleinburg and Woodbridge have the older stock — village-scale, plenty of it heritage-sensitive, and roofs where appearance genuinely constrains the choice. Vellore Village, Thornhill Woods and the towers at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre are the opposite: new, uniform, and built recently enough that nobody has replaced anything yet.
On the newer houses the honest advice is often to wait. A shingle roof with real life left in it is not worth tearing off. What we can do is tell you roughly how long you have, which is a more useful answer than a quote you did not need.
Vaughan
Four heritage districts
Vaughan has four heritage conservation districts: Kleinburg-Nashville, Maple, Thornhill and Woodbridge. Each has its own district plan, and a change of roofing material on a house inside one is the kind of thing the City expects to hear about first. Check with Vaughan's heritage staff before you commit, and bring the profile and colour you are considering.
Metal and heritage are not opposites. Several of the profiles are low-relief and quiet, and the right one on an older house in Kleinburg or Woodbridge reads as a good roof rather than a new one.
Vaughan
Across the boundary from Caledon
Vaughan's western edge meets Caledon, where Highland is based, so Kleinburg and Woodbridge are close to home for us. The newer areas further east — Vellore Village, Thornhill Woods, the streets around the Metropolitan Centre — are a little further, and covered the same way.
Vaughan
Commercial and industrial roofs
Highland roofs commercial buildings as well as houses, and Vaughan has a great deal of it along Weston Road and around the Metropolitan Centre. On larger buildings it matters who is on the roof: Highland carries $5 million in liability insurance and WSIB coverage.
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Roofing homes in Vaughan
Kleinburg and Woodbridge have the older, village-scale housing where appearance genuinely constrains the choice; Vellore Village and Thornhill Woods do not.
Most of the decision is the profile rather than the colour. A deep tile like Banff suits older roofs with steep pitches and plenty of visible surface; Standing Seam is flatter and cleaner and sits better on a long modern run. Banff is available in black only; Standing Seam offers eight finishes.
Eight finishes
Black 9005 through Terra Cotta 8004, on every profile except Banff.
Snow
sheds rather than holds it, so there's less weight on the structure and less ice building at the eaves.
Summer heat
reflective coatings cut how much reaches the roof deck.
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Commercial roofing
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre and the industrial land along Weston Road are where most of the commercial roof area sits.
On a commercial building the case for metal is mostly about what stops happening. Flat and low-slope roofs need attention on a cycle, and that cycle costs money whether or not anything has actually gone wrong — inspections, recoating, patching, and scaffolding booked every few springs. Metal takes most of it off the calendar.
Fasteners
Standing Seam fixes with concealed fasteners, so there are no exposed screws to work loose.
Finish
matched to the existing brick, cladding or curtain wall rather than fighting it.
Long runs
panels are rolled in Europe and cut to the building, so there are fewer joints.
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New builds and custom homes
Vaughan builds at scale, and on a planned community the roof spec is set long before anyone moves in.
The useful time to involve a roofer is while it is still on paper. Pitch, valley detailing and how the panel meets the fascia are all cheaper to resolve at the drawing stage than on site. We would rather be in the conversation with your architect early than be handed a finished deck and asked to make it work.
Early involvement
we work with architects and builders through detailing, not just at installation.
Seven profiles
the roof can be part of the design rather than a constraint on it.
Lifespan
metal outlasts asphalt by a wide margin, which matters on a house you intend to keep.
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Eavestroughs
Newer subdivisions here are graded tightly, which leaves very little margin if an eavestrough overflows.
Metal sheds water fast — that is the point of it — but it does mean more water reaches the eavestrough in less time than a shingle roof would send down. Undersized or leaking gutters are the usual reason water ends up sitting against a foundation, so we size the system to the roof rather than fitting it afterwards.
Coated steel
four protective layers, warranted 40 years by the system's manufacturer.
Sized to the roof
metal sheds water faster than shingle does, so the system is sized for the roof rather than matched to whatever was on the house before.
Coordinate the eavestrough finish with your chosen roof. Confirm the available materials and colours.
SEVEN PROFILES. UP TO EIGHT COLOURS.
Roofing in Vaughan: questions
Can I put a metal roof on a house in Kleinburg or another Vaughan heritage district?
Possibly, but check with the City of Vaughan's heritage staff first. Kleinburg-Nashville, Maple, Thornhill and Woodbridge are heritage conservation districts with their own plans. Highland can show you the lower-profile panels and colours to take to that conversation.
My Vaughan house is only fifteen years old. Should I replace the roof now?
Not necessarily. A shingle roof with real life left in it is not worth tearing off. Highland can look at it and give you a rough idea of how long it has, so you can plan rather than react.
Do you install metal roofs on commercial buildings in Vaughan?
Yes. Highland does commercial and agricultural roofing as well as homes, and carries $5 million in liability insurance and WSIB coverage.
Roofing in Vaughan?
Free, no-obligation quote.