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Top September Stories: Composite Roofing, Technology Trends and Best Safety Practices
By Evelyn Witterholt. Here’s what’s been trending on RoofersCoffeeShop® (RCS) this past September. The roofing industry is growing at a rapid pace and so is the technology we use every day. With that in mind, it’s not a surprise to us that one of our most read articles in ...
Don’t Roll the Dice With Safety
By The RIDGEPRO®. When it comes to safety, you don't want to take any chances. Measure twice… cut once. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Making a plan without tools is like making spaghetti without a pot. Some sayings are as old as the ...
The RIDGEPRO® - We’re All About Safety
By The RIDGEPRO. Here's how you can use The RIDGEPRO to enhance your safe roofing practices. Most people who have worked on rooftops for a number of years will admit to having some close calls or will talk about a fellow roofer who was injured in a fall. In our family business, ...
How to Grow Your Business
By The RIDGEPRO ®. When you’re too busy to grow your business. At the height of the roofing season it’s tough to think about anything other than getting through it. Weekends off are a fond memory and often, your kids are already asleep by the time you get home. You’re dimly aware ...
Bad Habits: Breaking up is Hard to do
By The RIDGEPRO®. Here's how you can break your bad business habits. They say it takes 30 days of practice to break a bad habit and even longer to form a new one. Anyone who has tried to quit smoking can tell you it takes longer than a single month and often ...
Some Striking Facts About Lightning
By The RIDGEPRO® With Lightning Safety Awareness Week, here are some facts and precautions roofing professionals must know about lightning. We all feel joy at the return of spring. In the north the ice melts on the pond, in the west the desert blooms, and in the south lightning illuminates the sky. ...
Beyond Recruitment – Tips for Employee Retention
By The RIDGEPRO® Here are five tips on how to retain talented employees. Among the most costly things a company must do is hire and train new employees. It’s a drain, not only on the budget, but on the front line people who must participate in the onboarding and training of the ...
The RIDGEPRO® Supports National Safety Stand Down
By The RIDGEPRO® It’s time to take a breath. Stop. Look around. Ask your crews: What fall hazards do you see on the jobsite? What can we do about them? During the first week of May for the past ten years, OSHA has reminded all of us in the construction trades ...
Roofers Are People Too
By The RIDGEPRO®. It's our responsibility to remember and respect that roofers are humans too, with their own complex lives. A successful roofing crew works like a well-oiled machine. In a perfect world, job specs were exact; materials arrived on time; equipment is always in tip-top shape; the weather is just right; ...
Five Tips for Embracing New Ideas
By The RIDGEPRO® Make it safe for innovation in your company. One of your estimators has been pushing you to purchase one of those high-tech measurement tools that uses aerial images to take roof measurements and then creates a comprehensive report and estimate for potential customers. You’ve been putting him off by ...
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