Weather
Roofing Contractors Responding After the Storm
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. Here are what plans you should have in place for this hurricane season. As Ian passed through Florida, then regrouped off the east coast and headed to South Carolina, it reminded us in the industry that emergencies and disasters can strike anywhere, anytime, causing damage to ...
How to Choose the Best Roof for a Texas Home
By Trevor Underwood, DECRA. Texas homes face a number of challenges unique to their location, but DECRA metal roofs are uniquely poised as a top choice for Texas homeowners. Texas homes need to be built tough. The Lone Star state is known for its adverse weather conditions, with hundreds ...
Hurricanes are Coming! Have You Set Your Clients up For Success?
By IKO. Educate your customers on how to protect their homes from hurricane season. Unfortunately, you can’t guarantee your customers a hurricane-proof roof. Even a roof with cutting-edge technology cannot fully defend against a hurricane. As a contractor, you know that homeowners depend on you to make sure that ...
5 Ways to Prepare a Roof for a Hurricane
By ICP Group. It is official, hurricane season is here! Have you prepared your homeowner’s roof? Hurricane season is amping up, with promises to be more unpredictable and intense than ever before. As a contractor, you know that hurricanes can cause major wind and water damage to the roof and ...
How to Find a Roofing Contractor After a Storm Hits
By Evelyn Witterholt. Here’s why you should stay wary of storm chasers and find a reputable contractor to fix your storm-damaged roof. Storm season is here and all across the country, people are seeing roof damage from rain and hailstorms. Because of the damage, you are likely looking for a reliable contractor ...
BluSky Restoration Announces Merger With Massachusetts-based Pro-Care Disaster Restoration Services
The combined company will operate 49 offices serving the U.S. coast to coast. On Thursday, BluSky Restoration Contractors, LLC, a leading national property restoration company in the U.S., announced a merger with Woburn, Massachusetts-based Pro-Care Disaster Restoration Services. The merged companies will continue as BluSky Restoration, operating 49 offices in 19 states ...
How to Prepare Your Customers for Disaster
By MARCO. Let your homeowners know that metal is a roofing material durable enough to handle hurricanes, earthquakes and fire. As hurricane season rounds the corner and the weather continues to get crazier, now is as good a time as ever to remind your customers about the resilience of metal ...
A Roofing Solution for the Atlantic Hurricane Season
Protect your home with Polyglass solutions for hurricane preparedness. It’s that time of year again in the Northern Hemisphere when building owners, contractors, and homeowners living along the Eastern Seaboard and coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico start wincing at the all-too-familiar phrase, “Hurricane Season.” June 1 to November 30 is ...
Understanding Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
By DaVinci Roofscapes. Learn more about the WUI products and codes and how they apply to roofing. Nationwide wildfires are popping up in dry forest lands. Once thought of as restricted to just California, wildfires are now searing land across America. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, since January 1, 2022, there ...
3 Pieces of Advice on Waterproofing a Roof
By Rob White, GCP. How to help a roof stand up to the new norm of extreme weather. As extreme weather becomes increasingly more common, it is clear that we need to approach how we construct and repair buildings to match the new challenges Mother Nature presents. As ...
