The television news has been rather depressing lately, so we thought you would prefer to open up your latest issue of Roofing Contractor to read about a good-old-fashioned American success story — the kind where motivation, hard work and ambition are rewarded; the kind that says you can get ahead if you try.
As NRCA conventions go, this one was a success by several measures, but mainly from that seat-of-the-pants feeling that you get when you arrive back home with tons of literature and business cards and are actually interested to follow up and learn more.
Imagine that everything is going smoothly on a 4,600-square TPO job, and then, when work is two thirds of the way done, someone decides that the roof needs a mechanical screen.
Late in the afternoon, a UPS van pulls up to your office and a number of large cardboard boxes are unloaded. In a matter of minutes, there are hundreds, or more likely, thousands of dollars of equipment stacked in your waiting room, shipped directly from the Never Fear Safety Co. The answer to all of your safety problems has arrived!
Wilks Robinson, president of Wilks Robinson Construction Co., Marion, S.C., purchased a historic yet dilapidated farmhouse with the intent of restoring it to its former beauty.
The basic concept of converting flat roofs, with ponded water and all of the associated problems, to slightly pitched roofs is very well received by school board members and school superintendents.
Only on the Web! A century old limestone quarry and cement plant have been turned into what some have declared “one of the most sought after vacation gems in the world.”
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