Preparation is prevention

RCS Influencer Trent Cotney says to prepare now and make sure that you thought about how to navigate the pinch points.

Editor's note: The following is the transcript of a live interview with RCS Influencer Trent Cotney. You can read the interview below, listen to the podcast or watch the recording.

Alex Tolle: Hello, I'm Alex Tolle with RoofersCoffeeShop and I'm here for the March influencer response. I'm here with Trent again. How's it going Trent? Good. So our March question is how can contractors prepare for and respond effectively to weather related disasters, ensuring that they can quickly meet market demands and support affected communities?

Trent Cotney: Good, how you doing?

Trent Cotney: Yeah, so regardless of whether you have hurricanes or hail storms or fires or whatever natural disaster may come your way, there's a handful of things that you need to do. Internally, you need a standard operating procedure where your team is all on the same page. You have a chain of command. You understand exactly who is handling what. You've worked out logistics and supply chain to make sure that even if you are in an area that's been hit, that you have the ability to you know, gain access to materials and labor and storage as needed. The other thing that you want is you definitely want, you know, Blue Roof TARP contract and temper prepared contracts ready to go. Typically what you're doing is limiting warranties on those or not having any warranties. They're solely for the purpose of trying to keep it dry while you are able to get to it at some point. So those are the main things. It's just preparing now, making sure that you thought about sort of the pinch points, how to navigate that and showing up both your labor and your materials so that in the event you are affected, you can lean on others to kind of assist.

Alex Tolle: Yeah, that's so important to make sure that you're prepared for it and not waiting until that disaster hits to try to get those, get all those procedures in place and make sure you have everything ready. Just always being ready for it.

Trent Cotney: Right.

Alex Tolle: All right, well thank you so much Trent as always and we'll see you in April.

Trent Cotney: Sounds good. Thank you.