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TremLock® Visualizer Lets Owners See What their Metal Roof will Look Like
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. With the easy-to-use tool, you just upload an image, select the color and wow your customers! Most building owners understand that a metal roof is an investment in the long-term protection of their property. Metal roofs are durable, lasting 30 – 50 years or more with ...
How CRM Software Helps Work-Life Balance
By JobNimbus. A CRM software can improve your effectiveness and productivity at work so you can have more time for yourself. As a roofer, do you find your job to be: A) stressful, B) busy, C) time-consuming, or D) all of the above? It’s safe to say that nearly everyone in the roofing ...
Striking a Blow to Roofing Industry Trends
Calloway Roofing invests heavily in technology and departmentalization to boost customer service and production. Drew Calloway put his philosophy of service and quality to task, signing a 5-year marketing and technology contract to stay ahead of roofing industry service and communication complaints. As two major roofing contractors were shut down this year ...
What is the Best Imagery for Measuring?
One of RoofSnap’s core features has always been accurate measurements, whether you use our tools to do the measuring or leave it to us. In both cases, we need good imagery of the structure; we can’t measure what we can’t see! So what exactly makes imagery “good” for measurements, and why ...
Owens Corning Introduces Web Widgets for Contractors
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Widgets makes it easier for contractors to add Owens Corning content to their websites. When we learned that Owens Corning was offering a web widget for contractors, probably half of our team said, “What’s a web widget?” I figured it might be a good idea to ...
Why are Accurate Roofing Codes so Hard to Find?
By One Click Code. There’s one element to the roofing restoration industry that everyone experiences, and no one talks about: pulling accurate and enforced roofing codes. Manually pulling or fact checking roofing codes on multiple projects can take hours of your day. One local roofing contractor cited a time where it took ...
RT3 Member John Kenney of Sutter Roofing presented at ENGAGE ’19
By Karen L. Edwards, RT3. Sutter Roofing shared how technology is key driver of their success. 100 construction professionals recently gathered at the third annual ENGAGE global customer conference in Seattle, Washington to share best practices for driving greater operational effectiveness, competitive differentiation and employee safety through the use of technology, specifically ...
3 Ways to Automate Your Time
By One Click Code. Managing a workload with a wide variety of different tasks often leads to items on your agenda that, unfortunately, are not all that fun. Items such as paperwork, phone calls, research, and preparation are all work related tasks that are indirectly related to your job, which are ...
Solar Power International 2019: Introducing Nearmap on Opensolar
By Nearmap. SPI 2019 saw Nearmap launching a new solar product. Were you at Solar Power International 2019 in Salt Lake City, UT? Last month, Nearmap played host to hundreds of customers and introduced a new partnership to help solar companies boost their prospects. Combining our premium imagery with a complete solar ...
GAF Offers Aerial Roofing Measurement Software
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. GAF QuickMeasure is the solution to your roof measuring needs. “Any contractor that came up to me and said, listen, ‘I want to make high profits, I want to get more jobs done, I want to be more accurate on my estimates.’ First thing I would ...
