The Phone Rings- It’s the Foreman. Oh great now, what have we forgotten? Wrong. OSHA is on site. Aw crap. Just what everyone wants to hear. Panic sets in. Do we have everything set up properly? 8 years prior, on the exact same job site, we were also visited. After monitoring our crew … Read more
A local plaza changed hands, and the owner, who we had been working with passed our name along to the new owner. This is a plaza we know many of the business owners, having forged relationships with over decades. He asked for help, and that he “wanted to do it right”. Music to my ears, … Read more
Summer Big Project. The crew is in cruise mode, which means I don’t have the usual start-up and daily calls with questions or new crisis. The building manager calls me. Uh oh. “Hey, uh, the rumor is a sign was damaged sometime between yesterday and today, and it’s in the area you are operating. Can … Read more
Getting the kettle started again After a 2 year hiatus, we fired up the tar kettle. Something I thought id never use again, mostly because the old-school guys that know how to use it, not to mention the hot tar application, are all aging out of the industry. Well, if you’ve … Read more
A spring day, finishing up a home project when I get a call from the crew; ‘Hey uh, we found a conduit buried. But we found it with the roof cutter. Can you get an electrician out here?” Ugh, Fine, Hopefully, we can get one, as it’s going to rain tonight, and the roof … Read more
Where could it be?
I was hurrying on my way to an appointment today. My route took me by a building in a rough part of town, we had roofed a few years prior. The gentlemen we worked for was a nice, compassionate, hard-working guy who had retired and wanted to turn this empty corner store into a thriving … Read more
A bit too far Occasionally, I will have my service team take a core for me when they are out in the field on a property I haven’t visited yet. This home was a very peculiar design. Built-in the ’50s by the current owner’s father. There is no traditional decking on this property. The structure … Read more
Tales from my Father: One of my favorite and insightful stories passed to me from my father, was the story of the church leak. Every Sunday, a church would notice a small puddle of water behind the piano in the sanctuary. It never seemed to matter what the weather did, hard, soft, or frozen, each … Read more
Well, this is awkward. It was a fine Spring day. We were 4 days into a 10-day project, with no rain in sight. Life was good. Then I got a phone call. From the manager at a site, we were working on. “Uh, yea… Hi, this is Jane Doe from the John Center, uh. I… … Read more