A few months back my good friend, roofing
contractor Tom Scribbins, approached me with an idea for a feature he would
like to write for Roofing Contractor
about the Better Business Bureau.
Mark your calendar. I am marking mine. July 6,
2016, is when I will be able to write my complete and unabashed thoughts on
changes coming to the supply chain in the roofing industry.
Whenever I think of things gone wrong on a
retrofit roofing project I remember that day in Miami when David and I visited
Art and his boys (and girl … she ran the kettle). I was there doing my job as
the roofing equipment pro, and David ran the branch of my distributor.
There
are so many great things to write about this beautiful Saturday morning. There
was a moonset on the way out and a sunrise on the way back from my
early-morning run. There was that email from our group publisher, Jill Bloom,
yesterday announcing the new micro-site, Moving
On (www.bnpmedia.com/movingon),
which was set up to report on contractors who are moving on beyond all the bad
news and recession talk. The stock market completed another mostly positive
week and Mom is up visiting from Jacksonville.
Life is good.
I do not believe for a minute that the tax
breaks passed by the Senate recently are anything more than political
maneuvering. On the one hand, if the government is finally recognizing small
business as the engine that creates jobs in our country that would be a good
thing.
We have enough problems with our image in the
roofing industry. Now Georgia-based roofing contractor American Shingle’s
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy filing is leaving a trail of homeowners, subcontractors,
and various other suppliers in the lurch over tens of millions of dollars worth
of insurance work that was never completed.
When Roofing Contractor asked Bennett Hutchison III what he liked best about the new home he and his wife, Gayle, were constructing in Atlanta, he answered without hesitation, “The river … it’s just so peaceful.”
