Why do flatbed over van/reefer? I don't see the extra money

Both my neighbors and I have gotten new roofs in the past year or two. All I saw was incredibly hard working, short, non-English speaking men who started the tear-off early in the morning, and stayed up there until the job was complete as the sun was going down. They cleaned up thoroughly. You just have to find good crews, and manage them properly.

I completely get the beauty of being a one-man show. That's the whole reason I closed down my kitchen showroom, fired my installers and sales rep, and picked up my tool belt. My thieving sales rep would steal leads out of my showroom and one of my installers would do the work Friday-Monday.

The installer used his pregnant wife as the excuse to always miss those workdays. Being a good guy, I would either go on Monday to get the next job started, or go on Friday to wrap up the current job. I never once docked his pay.

You could imagine how betrayed I felt when I caught on to what they were doing.

Karma is a beech though. The fired sales rep started a competing refacing company, and he had the audacity to use the exact same contracts I had developed over the years, except he changed the logo and address.

I schemed on how to get him back. I formed my own LLC with a name very similar to his, but before him in the phone book. The plan was for people to hear his advertisements on my favorite AM radio station, then they'd look in the phone book and call me. Bwahahahaha!

I eventually just let it go, and left him to the refacing sector. I focused on traditional remodeling, which he didn't do. I hated refacing anyway.

He had to sell the business a few years later because he went deaf. That made me very happy.

So, yeah, one-man-show is the way I like it, but the reality is I can't keep doing it forever.

 

Yea I had a couple hung over kids from a roofing company that tore off the flat roof and some of the surrounding metal roof of a multi million dollar cottage on the Gulf I took care of and did all the other repairs on.

Owner called them because they were the original company that roofed it.

They tear off the flat over the entry and decide the plywood is rotted and they didn’t have plywood to fix it.

I am like really? Meanwhile i let one of the kids in the house in the A/c because I thought he was going to heat stroke and fall the 30 feet off the roof.

Next thing you know he is wandering around in this house that no body is allowed in but me , so boot him out

I had a shed full of building supplies out there because it was on Captiva island so I dragged out 4 sheets of plywood for them which killed their plans for leaving at noon on Friday

Than they had no flashing but I had a whole roll I gave to them.

So they get the rolled roof down and it is 4 and they say they are leaving and be back Monday.

Meanwhile there are 10 cut to fit roof panels they removed sitting up on the roof that they are going to leave until Monday

We get summer storms with 50 mph winds daily here.

So I tell them no one is leaving until the roof is back together and I take over and lead the job after digging out my tools.

I emailed the owner back in Switzerland and told him to send me a copy of the repair invoice before he pays it.

They billed him $3700 and charged him for my plywood and flashing.

I called the owner of the company and told him the shenanigans his 3 workers pulled that day and him $500 for the rolled roofing material. He can exchange my labor bill for his guys.

He said whatever. But we will never come out to do a repair again for you.

I told him don’t wait by the phone for my call.