It has been years since I’ve had a sense that business was anything but good. Maybe “great,” or “really good.” But lately my anecdotal and non-scientific research points to a period of malaise. There’s still plenty of roofing work to do, but the deficit in the workforce seems to have reached a point where growing a roofing company is not so much about finding or selling the next job as it is completing them so you can move on to the next.
The roofing industry isn’t the only one struggling to grow in the face of a diminished workforce. Virtually all construction trades are reporting issues with finding, training, and maintaining qualified trade workers. And that’s a problem for you as the competition for trade workers is coming at you from all directions.