By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Neighbor looks out for aging neighbors and the result is a new roof for this couple in need. David Kirkpatrick’s lives in Longwood, Florida, close to Mr. and Mrs. Aden, a couple who are both 85 years old and have lived in their home in Longwood ...
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Check out what’s trending on RoofersCoffeeShop.com this past month. The labor shortage continues to be trending here at the Coffee Shop with CertainTeed’s low-slope roofing labor study landing solidly in our top 5 last month. GAF’s post on the top 5 issues facing building and roofing ...
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. New safety program helps building owners implement a successful safety program on their rooftops. We love it when we find new, cool, innovative programs being offered in the roofing industry. So, when Weatherproofing Technologies Inc. (WTI), a division of Tremco, told us about their new safety ...
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. From automation to mixed reality and holograms, the future of technology in roofing is going to be exciting. In their continuing effort to learn, understand and share with the industry how the latest technologies can be applied to roofing, the Roofing Technology Think Tank (RT3) recently ...
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Check out what’s trending on RoofersCoffeeShop.com this past month. We have to say we aren’t surprised that one of the most read articles last month was related to labor. It’s definitely a hot topic and shows that contractors are interested in learning more about how they ...
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. We really do give away a lot of great prizes here on the Coffee Shop and you could be the next winner! It’s become a tradition for us here at the Coffee Shop to share a little bit about the winners of our many contests and ...
Marketing planning-focused book helps with overall business development. Heidi J. Ellsworth and Karen L. Edwards, consultants in the roofing industry focused on sales and marketing, have released a second book focused on marketing planning. As a follow up to their successful introductory-level book, Sales and Marketing for Roofing Contractors, the ...
By Karen L. Edwards, NWIR Communications Chair and RCS Editor. Dana Castle didn’t know what to expect from her trip to the National Women in Roofing Day, but she sure didn’t expect this! GREEN LINK Engineering’s Sales and Business Development Coordinator, Dana Castle, was excited about attending the first National Women in ...
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. We had been hearing a lot about the culture at Tremco Inc. and WTI so we decided to take a deeper dive. After RoofersCoffeeShop® partner, Heidi Ellsworth visited Tremco and saw what was happening there, she came back and informed me that we really needed to ...
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. This month’s winner takes us down to Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area to T-Rock Roofing & Construction. T-Rock Roofing & Construction owner, Aaron Sadler entered the StealthBond® monthly contest and was rewarded with a Pelican® cup! I had the chance to talk with Aaron recently ...