IP Insight: Plan Now to Get Ahead of the Fall Roofing Rush
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Plan Now to Get Ahead of the Fall Roofing Rush
by Kurt Scepaniak, Owner, Horizon Roofing
Almost every industry in the United States faces shortages of products and dramatic increases in pricing. For example, beef has doubled in price; car dealerships are empty because they need computer chips, and lumber might soon be considered a precious metal.
Commercial flat roofing is also facing higher prices and long lead times. Not long ago, roofing insulation, roofing accessories, and roofing membranes went from a two-week lead time to six months now. There is even the possibility of some products not even being available later this year.
So what do you do now to plan for roofing projects later this year or even the possibility of not even getting a new roof until 2022? We don't know if roofing products will be like the 2020 toilet paper shortages, but it might be. The best bet is to be proactive right now and get ahead of the fall roofing rush, and figure out how to extend the life of your roofs. If you are going to try and reroof a building in 2021, get pricing now with the understanding that no roofing contractor in the United States can control when the product is delivered, and there might be a price increase in materials.
To find out how to extend your roof's life or figure out how to limp it by until you can get a new roof, we recommend doing a complete roof inspection now. Roof inspections are a practice you should be doing at least once a year for new roofs, twice a year for older roofs, and after storms anyways, but it's even more critical now with material shortages. Make sure you use a company that is doing hundreds of roof inspections a year. Having an inexperienced or untrustworthy inspector can lead to inappropriate spending of your budget and water running into your building that won't be relaxing like a water wall in a massage parlor.
To learn more, contact Horizon Roofing
The “Insight from an IREM Industry Partner” blog series is a series of short articles from IREM Minnesota Industry Partners sharing their expert insight on issues of interest to property managers. All IREM Minnesota Industry Partners are invited to participate. The opinions expressed are those of the author.
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