Home Maintenance Editor
Building science degree from Virginia Tech. Covers roof lifecycle, ventilation, and preventive care. Based in Richmond, VA.
A practical, step-by-step method for laying out and documenting a hail test square that an adjuster can verify on the roof, with the counts, photos, and notes that hold up.
A practitioner's playbook for building roof supplements that desk adjusters approve without a fight: the photos, line items, code citations, and pricing logic that hold up the first time.
A field-tested workflow for documenting a discontinued or no-longer-available shingle, writing the matching line item, and supplementing it so the carrier's desk reviewer can say yes.
An adjuster reviews your photos in a specific order. Shoot them in that order, name them so they map to the scope, and you stop losing days to reinspections and supplements.
Age tells you part of the story; remaining life tells you which roofs to work first. Here's the practitioner method for scoring and ranking outreach by how much roof is left.
ZIP-code targeting is where most storm-restoration money is won or lost. Here is how sharp roofing teams turn hail reports into routes, not guesses.
Stop renting strangers' phone numbers. Eight acquisition channels you own, the exact workflows to run them, and a 90-day plan to wean off shared-lead marketplaces.
Lead price is the number everyone quotes and the wrong one to manage. Here is what roofing leads cost per channel in 2026, how to convert that into cost per signed job, and the levers that move it.
The practical signals that separate a re-roofed home from one running on its original deck, and how to read them from the curb, the attic, the paper trail, and aerial imagery before you ever set a ladder.
Year built is not roof age. Here is how to read aerial imagery, build an honest age range per address, and use it to point your crews at the roofs that are actually due.
A field-tested playbook for cutting new roofs out of your canvass so every knock lands on a roof that is aging out or storm-worn, using imagery, permits, and storm data.
When the carrier's adjuster calls your storm-damaged roof cosmetic or wear, the fix is documentation and process, not argument. Here is the contractor's playbook.
Year built is not roof age. Here is the practitioner workflow for building a prospect list sorted by how old each roof actually is, so your crew knocks worn-out roofs instead of the whole street.
Hail data is a targeting layer, not a lead list. Here's the field-tested workflow to turn swaths into ranked routes, fuse roof age and storm physics, and knock the roofs that actually convert.
Most of the money a storm restoration crew loses is spent on inspections that never had a chance. Here is how to score a lead before an inspector ever climbs a ladder.
Most roofing mailers fail because the list is wrong, not the postcard. Here is how to score and rank addresses so your spend lands on roofs that are actually due.
EagleView and roof-targeting software get lumped together, but they solve opposite problems. One measures a roof you already won. The other tells you which roof is worth chasing in the first place.
Storm data is everywhere and most of it is noise. Here is how to turn hail swaths, wind reports, and roof age into a ranked door list your crew can actually work.
