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The February edition of Roofing Contractorhas historically served as one of our most important issues. 

 Welcome to 2013, a year that promises to be ripe with possibilities and more than the average number of challenges. 

 What was your most memorable roofing project?  

 The November 1997 issue of Roofer Magazinecontained a feature article by this editor that did not win any awards or elicit tons of reader mail.  

Whether you consider yourself a commercial or residential roofing contractor, or one who works on structures of all types, you should be offering metal roofing as an option to many of your prospective customers

This month I am doing three things I try to avoid in this space: promoting our own products, writing about politics, and asking a favor.

 Sometimes budgets are not just about money.  

It never fails: change is hard. Even when most everything goes well, it is hard. 

In my role as a manager of facilities housing roofing and other building materials, one of the biggest pain points I encounter is finding reliable and flexible contractors — contractors of all kinds, ironically, except for roofing contractors, who typically work for my landlords.

When a startling piece of news relating to the roof-contracting industry crosses my radar I have a tendency to jump on it, but it has taken me months to make a public mention on this topic.