Scarcely a week goes by when we don’t receive notice of a new product designed to make roofing work cleaner, safer, faster, easier, or just plain better. More often than not, the new ideas come right off the roof. Solutions to the daily problems of roof removal and installation work are often invented and marketed by roofing contractors.
This month’s issue of Roofing Contractor keys in on tools and equipment. While they’re not the only way we solve safety and productivity problems in roofing, better gadgets are perennial favorites of progressive roofing contractors. In all my years in the business, I have known very few roofing contractors who weren’t either working on or very interested in the proverbial “better mousetrap.”