Guest Blog
How Well Are You Communicating with Your Roofing Clients?
By Jobba Trade Technologies. The better your communication, the better your customer experience. The better your customer experience, the more business that ultimately comes your way! Imagine you’ve never been up on the roof of a building you own. And, post-inspection, you now know you are about to spend some big ...
Why Choose Silicone Roof Coatings?
By Chris Huettig, KARNAK. According to ASTM, silicone-based coatings are “among the most useful materials for a wide variety of applications.” There are many choices of roof coatings on the market today with silicone ranking as a premium option for unrivaled renewal and restoration of just about any aging flat roof. In ...
Roof Design Considerations when Incorporating Solar
By GAF. When considering rooftop solar, the roof system should be designed to have an equivalent or longer lifespan than that of the solar arrays If photovoltaic systems (solar arrays) were installed on all the commercial buildings in the US with roofs over 5,000 sq. ft., they are estimated to provide enough ...
Psychological Safety in the Workplace
By Karen L. Cates, PhD In a psychologically safe workplace, employees feel confident that no one on their team will embarrass or punish anyone else for pointing out a mistake or asking a question In the past, I’ve written about the need to get into the mind and the heart of the ...
Protecting Flat Commercial Roof From Snow and Ice
If you service buildings in a wintry climate, encouraging owners to take steps to protect their roofs from ice and snow can save them a lot of money, effort, and energy. Building owners often take for granted the work roofs do for them in winter. While they stay safe from routine ...
Let's Talk Labor
By RoofSnap. It is no secret that there’s a labor shortage in our industry, the jobs numbers show employers scrambling to fill positions. Publications in our industry have been bemoaning this fact for the better part of a decade, since home construction bottomed out in 2011. And while there are many great ...
Let’s Build Camp for Girls Provides Exploration of Careers in Construction
By National Women in Roofing. This was the third year for the week-long camp that was held in Pennsylvania. Let's Build Construction Camp for Girls is a free week-long camp designed for high school age girls to explore the construction trades, architecture, engineering, and construction materials manufacturing through hands-on experiences and ...
Don’t Do Your Customers' Neighborhoods A Disservice: Help Them Update Their HOA Design Standards For 2020
By Metal Roofing Alliance. MRA offers information to educate your customers' HOAs and offer a visualization tool to help them 'see' the beauity of metal roofs. “Metal roofs simply will not work with our neighborhood’s architectural design standards.” Statements like this reflect a lingering problem that HOAs across the country face: How ...
Construction Law: Contract Clauses, Part One
By Cotney Construction Law. Construction clauses are more than a legal formality. Signing on the dotted line is more than a legal formality. It is an acceptance of, and submission to, the rights and responsibilities detailed in a contract. Every contract should be the product of conscious deliberations between the contracting parties, ...
Meet the Roof Raisers: Brook and Keshia Reese of Reese Roofing
By GAF. After being laid off from work five years ago, Brooke Reese decided to start a roofing company. Now he's a GAF Master Elite contractor. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one ...
