Strategies, insights, and lessons from the trenches of scaling roofing companies.
April marks the transition from preparation to execution. The planning, hiring, and positioning you did over winter now faces market reality. According to a January 2025 seasonal...
You cannot control the economy. You cannot control buyer appetite. You cannot control interest rates. But you can control when you take your company to market, and that timing...
Most contractor training is informal and inconsistent. New hires shadow experienced workers. Knowledge transfers through observation and occasional explanation. According to a...
Selling your roofing company is likely the largest financial transaction of your life. It is also likely the first time you have done it. Buyers, by contrast, may have completed...
You know how to run your roofing company. You know how to estimate jobs, schedule crews, manage quality, and handle customers. But can you transfer that knowledge to someone else?...
March marks the transition. Weather is turning. Homeowners are inspecting winter damage. Storm season approaches. Spring represents 40% of annual roofing demand in most markets....
Your calendar fills with operational demands. Customers need attention. Employees need direction. Vendors need decisions. Somewhere on the priority list, usually far down, are the...
Overhead exists. Rent, administrative salaries, insurance, utilities, and equipment depreciation must be paid regardless of which jobs are performed. The question is how to assign...
Your roofing company generates revenue one project at a time. You complete a job, collect payment, and need to find the next customer. This cycle repeats endlessly. Revenue is...
You have heard the advice a thousand times: delegate more. You have tried. You assigned a task. The result disappointed you. You fixed it yourself and concluded that delegation...
Your inspector photographs a roof. Back at the office, someone reviews 50 images, identifies damage locations, measures affected areas, and documents findings. The process takes...
When buyers evaluate your roofing company, they ask a simple question: what happens after the owner leaves? If the honest answer is "the business struggles," your company has a...
You make a decision and feel confident. An hour later, you make another decision and feel slightly less certain. By 4 PM, you are agreeing to things you would have rejected at 9...
Your company appears profitable. Revenue exceeds costs. Cash accumulates. But beneath the aggregate numbers, individual service lines tell different stories. According to a...
Estimating consumes hours of your week. Every measurement, material calculation, and price lookup pulls time from selling and managing. AI-powered estimating software promises to...
Artificial intelligence has moved from tech industry buzzword to practical business tool. For roofing contractors at $5M and above, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI...
Every January, roofing company owners set business goals. Revenue targets. Crew expansion plans. New market entries. The business gets a vision. But what about you? According to...
Budgets get a bad reputation as bureaucratic exercises disconnected from reality. That reputation comes from bad budgeting, not budgeting itself. According to a February 2024...
Fall storm season represents both opportunity and chaos. Hurricane remnants, severe thunderstorms, and early winter weather create sudden demand spikes that can make or break Q4...
Material theft costs the average roofing company 2-5% of material spend annually. On a $5M company with $1.5M in materials, that's $30K-$75K per year walking out the door....
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