Roofing BC, the magazine of the Roofing Contractors Association of British Columbia, profiled the company in its Summer 2014 issue. The piece covers our change of ownership and walks through four buildings we have finished.

New ownership, same crews

Chris Smith has taken over the company. The name stays. The crews stay. The suppliers stay. In a trade where a company's real assets go home every night in their own trucks, a change of ownership is mostly a question of whether anything the crews depend on gets broken, and the answer here is no.

The company has been going since 1980 and the standards it works to are RCABC standards, which do not change with a signature on a purchase agreement.

Four buildings

The article covers four jobs, and between them they are a reasonable summary of what we do.

Queens Park Arena in New Westminster is a re-roof on the mainland, on an arena, which means a large low slope area, mechanical to work around and a building that people are booked into. BC Hydro Quinsam Crossing Field Office is at the other end of the size scale, a working field office where the job is to be in, correct and out.

Berwick by the Sea in Campbell River is occupied residential work, where noise, access and daily cleanup matter as much as the roof detail. L'ecole Au-coeur-de-l'ile in Comox is a school, which means the calendar is the client. School roofs get done between June and the first week of September or they do not get done that year.

Working off island

Queens Park Arena is on the mainland, which people sometimes find odd for a Comox Valley contractor. An arena is a large low slope roof with a lot of mechanical sitting on it and a booking calendar running underneath it. That is the same problem we solve on hospitals and schools closer to home. The building type travels better than the map suggests.

What the four have in common

Different buildings, different owners, one method. Get the drawings and the material sorted before mobilizing. Lift material to the roof only when it is required, so the amount of times the material is handled is kept down. Keep the open area to what the crew can dry in and close in the same day. Leave the site clean each evening, because on an occupied building the customer judges the job daily and only sees the roof once.

Being in the association's magazine

Roofing BC goes to RCABC members, which means this profile was read mainly by other roofers. That is a specific kind of audience. Other contractors know exactly which parts of a job are difficult, and they are not impressed by photographs of a finished roof from a distance.

If you have an arena, a school, a seniors residence or a field office with a roof coming due, call us at 250-336-8088 or use the contact page. Our estimates are free and include a detailed list of the work that will be done and the materials used.