WHY WE WON'T
SUBCONTRACT.
I worked nine years for a contractor that subbed every roof out to whichever crew showed up cheapest that week. The work was bad, the warranty calls were worse, and the homeowner was always the one stuck with the bill. I started this company in 1998 with one truck and a crew of two, and we put on the roofs ourselves.
Twenty-eight years later we still put on the roofs ourselves. The trucks are nicer, the crew is fourteen, and we own a couple of drones we couldn't have imagined back then. But the rule has not changed: if our name is on the contract, our hands are on the shingle.
If that costs us a job here and there to a contractor charging less because they're paying a sub fifty cents on the dollar, fine. We sleep at night, the warranty is real, and the foreman that shakes your hand on day one is the same person on the magnet sweep on day six.
