You Reap What You Cheap

"Sounds about right."

⚠️ BUSINESS HUMOR WARNING

The following contains educational parody and inconvenient truths. Side effects may include informed decision making and buyer’s remorse prevention. If you’ve already made questionable roofing choices, this site is therapy, not judgment. 🫶🏻
Legal Reality: We’ve all purchased cheap things and regretted it. It’s perfectly fine to laugh about it and move on.

PURPOSE STATEMENT

Do your budget meetings sound like prayer circles?
If you answered yes, please keep reading - your future self will thank you.
We employ humor to help prevent future pain.
Of all the areas where you shouldn’t hunt for discounts, it’s your overhead shield from the weather.
Some discounts should make you nervous.It’s like buying a parachute from the lowest bidder. GERONIMO! 🪂

⚖️ The Physics of Roofing Decisions

Remember teeter-totters? Same principle applies here.

Three Universal Laws

We’ve all experienced these - this is therapy time 😀

Newton's Law of Roofing

For every shortcut, there’s an equal and opposite expensive consequence

Murphy’s Law of Cheap Materials

If it can leak, it will leak (usually during your biggest client meeting)

The Law of Roofing Karma

You reap what you cheap

5 Stages of Cheap Roof Grief

Denial
01
Frustration
02
Bargaining
03
Depression
04
Acceptance
05

🎬 Coming Soon to a Building Near You

Episode 1: “I Saved Money!” (Spoiler alert: You didn’t)

Episode 2: What’s That Dripping Sound?

Episode 3: Why Are There Buckets in My Conference Room?

Episode 4: Insurance Doesn’t Cover What Now?

Season Finale: Let’s Just Build a New Building

Your Roof Investment Has Two Parts:

Time and Money. As you lower one, you raise the other.

WHAT CHEAP REALLY COSTS
Black mold is serious
Moisture trapped in your roof is risky
Cheap affects your sleep
Emergency repairs don’t happen at convenient times
WHAT QUALITY DELIVERS
Smooth out your annual facilities budget
No worries for decades
Your workers deserve to enjoy working here

There’s Really Just Two Areas to Evaluate

Number One: Quality of materials
Number Two: Skill of craftsmanship

Which one did you want to reduce? Cheap mindset ends up with a cheap result.

Let the building pay for itself. There’s plenty of equity and cash flow options available.

We Specialize in Problems You Don’t Have Yet

Thankfully.* (Go ahead and crack a grin.) 😊

FLEXIBLE VINYL BLANKET:

Seal and heal so there’s no reveal
Advanced membrane tech
Spring and fall preventative inspections

FOR METAL ROOF RESTORATION:

We put metal roofs to sleep
Exposure-proof your metal
Digital cloud documentation

WHAT WE DON’T DO:

We don’t try to pitch you plastic from the 1990s (Clinton administration)
We don’t believe in silicone quick fixes (Want to know why? Check out siliconeissilly.com
We don’t recommend prehistoric built-up tar systems

Your People Are Worth Protecting

Buildings don’t transform lives, but what happens inside them does.
Lungs 🫁 without spores are more productive.

The Manufacturing Plant:

It might be funny if it weren’t so painful… buckets catching the eventual cost of cheap.

The Warehouse Owner:

Comparison is the enemy of contentment. Be confident in your choices.

The Property Manager:

A healthy roof ensures business continuity. Period.

Don’t Do That to Your People

Simple truth: Low-cost and top-quality are rarely discovered in the same sentence.

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