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Home for the Holidays Has a New Meaning This Year
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. With homeowners staying put for the holidays, many say they plan to invest money into home improvement projects. According to a recent Modernize survey of more than 5,000 homeowners, 76 percent of respondents will not travel this holiday season. More than half (55 percent) ...
Are You a Veteran Who Now Works in Roofing? Tell us Your Story!
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Share your story and you could get TAMKO koozies for your team. RoofersCoffeeShop® (RCS) has teamed up with TAMKO Building Products to honor and share the stories of our military veterans. This November, we will be the sharing stories of our nation’s veterans who have now ...
Top October Stories: Career Female Roofer, Hurricanes and Color of the Year
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Here’s what’s trending on RoofersCoffeeShop®(RCS) this past month. Human interest stories are always popular on RCS and that proved true once again with our top story being about Rebecca Welsh, a regional business manager for Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc. (WTI), and her mission to try ...
A Chance to Show Off Your Metal Roofing Skills
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. The submission deadline for the 2020 DECRA Metal Roofing Project of the Year is approaching fast! The 2020 DECRA Metal Roofing Project of the Year is accepting submissions now through December 1, 2020. If you are a metal roofing contractor or have done a metal roofing project ...
How to Become an Expert at Metal Roofing
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. S-5! webinar series provides training and education at no cost. Contractors who install metal roofing systems have seen how lucrative the business can be. When you decide to add metal roof installation to your business, you are expanding your customer base by offering a product that ...
COO On Demand for Roofing Companies
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. If your company needs a chief operating officer but doesn’t want to invest in a full-time hire, consider outsourcing the role. Every roofing business would benefit from a deeply experienced chief operating officer, but hiring a full-time COO comes with a hefty price tag that not ...
Creating Future Leaders and Inspiring Social Change
By Colin Sheehan, RCS Reporter. The Let’s Build Camp for Girls empowers young women to pursue careers in construction, architecture, engineering and manufacturing. The Let’s Build Construction Camp for Girls is a collaborative partnership between Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), as well as ATAS International ...
Sustainability Starts With People
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. SOPREMA is passionate about sustainability, infusing the concept into its company culture. In a recent Roofing Road Trips webinar, Tim Kersey, SOPREMA VP and general manager, and Matt Davis, marketing manager, visited with Heidi about their company’s commitment to sustainability. Tim shared that sustainability ...
The Biden Administration and the Roofing Industry
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Major news outlets have declared Joe Biden the winner of the election; what that means for roofing and construction. The recent election has left many of us wondering how a new administration’s policies and initiatives will affect the roofing industry. Stephen E. Sandherr, ...
Let’s Talk Ventilation
By Lauren White, RCS Assistant Editor. Designed with contractors in mind, TopShield ventilation products are efficient and easy to use. Ventilation is oftentimes not given as much attention as other components of a roofing system. However, ventilation is vital to keeping your customers' homes energy efficient and protecting the roof’s longevity ...
