What Is Your Most Profitable Thing To Do

Ed the Roofer

For me, I just absolutely love it when a home needs to have al of the plywood decking replaced.

I also notice how many companies do not replace rotted decking, because they would rather get the job done quickly rather than the Right Way.

What makes your company the most profit?

Ed

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apehangeralfy

The jobs that are all but impossible, scheduled so tight that there is no room for any error and the entire site has to work together. There is not even enough time to think about what you are doing, it has to instinctive... stressful but man time flies and the feeling of pulling it off is priceless...

Grumpy

The answer is highly dependable. We have the most margin on repairs. Until this year we would make the same "per truck" on a repair crew vs a shingle crew. I changed that to increase our markup on the shingle work to be more in line with our other work. We do real well on gutter work. As you know we are making the push into low slope and that's because that's where we do the best!

There is no profit in anything with the word "new" in it. That being new construction, new additions etc...

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tinner666

Repair work. I'd love to have 2 a day, every day.

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Grumpy

Why not Tinner? I keep one man busy doing nothing but repairs 40-50 hours per week every week. I'd love to have 2 or 3 repair guys working 40 hour weeks.

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Aiken Colon

Try contacting local home inspectors in your area. Ask if they do thermal imaging. These guys find a lot of things wrong on roofs. Set up some type of referral program with them, or maybe pay for their leads in some way. Home inspectors are always looking for more ways to generate revenue. We talk to a ton of them weekly.

JJ

Ed the Roofer

Good idea.

I converse with quite a few of them on one of their forums for some roofing advice, when needed, but never thought about putting them on my team for referrals.

Thanks,

Ed

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Aiken Colon

You on the Nachi site? That is the main one that I know about. I have noticed a few guys from here and electrician talk on those boards as well. If you live near a major metropolitian area you can also see if they have any meetings coming up. I know FLIR was at their event here in Scottsdale. I am not sure what it takes to get an invite, but that would be one heck of a way to network with home inspectors.

You can try realitors also, believe it or not, that do IR inspections. We sell a lot of home inspectors and occasionally a realitor IR units.

JJ

Ed the Roofer

Yes, mostly on Nachi.org with a few posts on the ASHI Inspectors Journal board.

Although the Nachi Certification seems to be frowned upon and considered just a revenue generating diploma mill by the other organizations who have a direspect for Nick Gromicko, I find their informative posts and readily access to supportive links to be extremely valuable.

I hold several posters in high regard over at Nachi, with Marcel Cyr and Brian McNeish being the two that most prominently come to mind.

Several of the inspectors also post on the JLC Forum, who I have know for several years as well.

Ed

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whitcoroofing

I would have to say repeat customers are what make us the most profit. It cost a lot more to gain new customers, than to retain a customer.

As far as one single type of job, it would most likely be roof restoration. Roof coatings can be applied rather quickly, compared to other jobs. A roof coating job most likely gives us the largest profit margin. As far as the most profit as a total dollar amount, that would be large re-roofing projects.