Construction tips and guide for homeowners and renovators: Here, you will find ideas, hints and tips for your construction project!

Home Construction tips

Are you planning a new building or renovating your home, or are you in the middle of a project and looking for help, inspiration, tips and tricks?

Then our articles on roofs and façades are just what you need!

Old roof on a rural cottage (with scaffolding) just before the roof was renovated with PREFA shingles

Roof renovation: A new roof is needed!

Is a roof renovation necessary? Whether it’s leaks or visible defects – there are many reasons to renovate a roof. To avoid making mistakes, here you can find a checklist with tips and tricks for planning.

Construction tips

Newly refurbished residential building with gabled roof and dormer. The roof was refurbished with the PREFA FX.12 roof panel in anthracite.

Coverings for every roof shape

Learn about roof materials, roof systems and minimum roof pitches and be inspired by top-quality PREFA roofing.

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Detached house with a hipped roof and dormer clad with PREFA aluminium shingles in brick red to achieve a brick effect.

PREFA tile-effect roof covering

With brick red roof products from PREFA, you can combine the traditional appearance of a tiled roof with the benefits of a light aluminium roof.

Get inspired now

This image shows a charming detached house in Blieskastel whose freshly renovated gable with PREFA natural oak sidings is immediately striking. The warm wood look of durable aluminium harmonises impressively with the red tiled roof and the spacious conservatory. An idyllic, vibrant scene is created, surrounded by lush greenery and lovingly-planted flower beds. The robust façade renovation with PREFA not only gives the house a natural look but is also impressive in terms of its weather resistance, colour fidelity and virtually maintenance-free durability.

Façade renovation with PREFA

Modern façade renovation today means more than just protection. PREFA aluminium façades guarantee lasting quality and can be flexibly combined – perfect for the customised renovation of existing buildings.

Details about façade renovation

PREFA tradesman in a grey T-shirt with a PREFA rhomboid tile façade in brown and Mayan gold.

Façade design: Ideas and tips

Learn more about façade materials, façade design and façade renovation. We also answer frequently asked questions about non-bearing, rear-ventilated façades.

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Side view of a hotel, the façade of the ground floor is vertically clad with rather dark wood. Above it is a façade projection, from here the façade is clad with aluminium panels in nut brown.

Wood & aluminium: naturally beautiful, permanently protected

Wood façades give your home a particularly natural look. PREFA façades in a wood look or combined with real wood offer natural aesthetics and long-lasting protection.

Discover now: aluminium and wood

Construction tips and guide for homeowners and renovators: Here, you will find ideas, hints and tips for your construction project!

Tips around the roof

Façade tips