It has been an interesting decade since the nation’s economy plunged into The Great Recession. Roofing, for the most part, fared better than most construction trades.
New residential construction ground to a halt, but retrofit roofing continued to move forward powered by hurricanes and hail storms. New construction and capital improvement projects on commercial buildings were delayed or abandoned. Commercial roofing contractors, however, managed to survive — and many even thrive — with the emergence of separate roof maintenance divisions that offered building owners the option of repairing versus replacing their roofs as the economy limped along.