JUST ONE CALL
By Lee Quinn
If there is something I’ve gained in my experience of producing the Eden Local, it’s paramount to engage with the customers. It’s not about selling advertising, which is the life blood of the magazine, but spending time with the clients.
booked up. Seeing prices beaten isn’t always a good thing, and another point raised by Darren was with the increasing costs of materials and shortages coming out of Lockdown, will corners be cut where they can, to make a profit which isn’t actually there. Some of these shortages, I learnt from Darren, are that key components like the wooded slats the tiles are fixed to have gone up in price by 50%. Potentially for the smaller roofing companies, there is a concern over the availability of tiles in 2021.
That said, I believe a lot of what I do in this respect is echoed by most of the businesses and organisations I work with. Meeting Darren and Laura again of One Call, it’s always good to catch up and interesting to find out how the industry of Roofing is coming back from the Pandemic, with their team that can boast over 20 years’ experience in this trade.
Tile production decreased in the first lockdown and it’s not back to full capacity at present. The bulk orders for roof tiles in their tens to forty or sixty thousand, are placed by large housing developers, and they are first in the queue with the smaller independent roofing contractors behind them. One Call is asking potential customers to call now so they can pre order materials well in advance which in many ways is the normal way when you’re planning, project management and budgeting a roofing job.
Roofing is an essential part of any property or building. If it isn’t done right, the consequences are obvious. So, whilst you might think it’s seasonal, it is more of a requirement and when its needed you need good project planning, unquestionable safety requirements, but ultimately you need a roofer you can trust. As an advertising publication, the Eden Local through experience and not a legal requirement, chose to create its own vetting process for some of the industries it works with. Based on our knowledge of roofing and roofers and having experience in the building industry, primarily in Steel and Timber, roofing isn’t complicated if you get the right roofer, because then you get the right roof.
If you are planning to stay at home this summer or you’ve been thinking about a new roof, now might be a good time to make ‘One call’!
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In talking to Darren, One Call have attended a number of ‘re-roofing’ jobs that were previously done by other ‘roofers’ discovering so many problems and corners that had been cut by these previous ‘roofers’ the only option is to do them again. In the current climate as I learnt, we are not short of people who are happy to work on roofs, but have we got enough qualified roofers?
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Darren’s diary is starting to get busy which is good, but like a number of reputable roofing companies like One Call, he has concerns when everyone gets
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