Longtime friends CJ McConaghy and Neil Haugen decided to gamble in 2017 and started their own roofing contractor firm. Six years and approximately $25 million in annual revenue later, the gamble is paying dividends.
Like most “buddy” movies — “Stir Crazy,” “Tommy Boy,” and “The Blues Brothers” come to mind — chemistry is the through line of the duo’s success. That intangible, coupled with pedagogic knowledge of their clientele’s wont, has propelled buddies CJ McConaghy and Neil Haugen, principals of Three Tree Roofing, to pole position.
While not really “competing on the speedway,” the Kent, Wash.-based firm, with offices in Seattle and Bellevue, does let it be known — smack in the middle of its website’s homepage — the company is “Ranked the No. 1 roofer in Washington (out of 4,963 roofers statewide).” While perhaps hyperbolic, a perusal through consumer-review sites, including Yelp.com and Angi.com, lends legitimacy to the claim.