Contractor Profile: Kalkreuth Roofing and Sheet Metal
Kalkreuth Roofing and Sheet Metal, a firm with roots dating back to 1920, used the past century to become one of the nation’s top commercial roofing concerns
Ahead
of this year’s Independence Day weekend, Kalkreuth Roofing and Sheet
Metal staffers gathered outside the company’s Wheeling, W. Va.,
headquarters for the firm’s annual company barbeque, mingling and
enjoying the trappings these affairs offer: wieners, watermelon and
corn-on-the-cob. The roughly 100 or so employees in the Wheeling office
were an amalgam of top brass, mid-level executives, support staff and
field crews.
Carousing started around noon and likely continued
until, as the trades say, it was “time to roll up.” Among the revelers
in the company’s parking lot was David Hesse, a Kalkreuth lifer and,
since 2022, one of the concern’s co-principals.