There’s a new (yet strangely familiar) character in town and he’s coming to your neighborhood next. If you’ve got a metal roof though, B.B. Wolf can huff and puff all he wants, but he can’t hurt you.
The next time you visit the nation’s capital and happen to be stuck in traffic on 14th Street, take a good look at the roof on the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. The building’s complex, 75,000-square-foot metal roof was constructed by a company that does a lot more than roofing.
Heritage Roofing Systems of Oklahoma, Enid, Okla., recently completed a job for the Enid Public Schools that saved enough money to allow the district to reroof two additional buildings.
If your customers have a taste for metal on a single-ply budget, you might want to investigate the Decor system, recently brought to the United States by Sarnafil Inc., Canton, Mass.
For this article, we talked to some manufacturers of metal roof coatings to get their perspective on this growing industry. We also interviewed several contractors to give you a real-world perspective, as well as advice, on what using coatings can mean for your business.
Madsen Roofing, Sacramento, Calif., recently completed a job of the more challenging variety, thus demonstrating why the company has been at the top of its game for the past 14 years.
We talked to some of the major manufacturers of single-ply systems to see what has been happening and what’s on tap for 2001, in terms of products, marketing and prices.