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This month's topic: How do you deal with toxic employees?

The Durable Slate Company is an award winning slate roofing company serving the Eastern United States with offices located throughout Ohio and Maryland. Founded in 1986, The Durable Slate Company provides premium historic roofing services and has earned numerous high-profile awards for busines integrity and roofing ingenuity.

Established in Columbus, Ohio, over thirty years ago, they started as a small slate roofing company. Through quality service, sound methods and professional integrity, they quickly grew and now offer their roofing services nationwide. They follow The Durable Way: Incredible craft, service, transparency and professional integrity and that is why they are this month's RoofersCoffeeShop R-Club Roofer fo the Month. 

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This month's topic: How do you deal with toxic employees?

This month's topic: What is your advice for running and growing a family business?

Heidi J. Ellsworth visits with Corynn Sheridan of DuPont and Tara Faulkner of Metal Alliance about a revolutionary film this is offering the metal roofing industry a new way of looking at metal protection.  With over 60 years of proven performance, Tedlar® PVF Films from DuPont are trusted and have been used in aerospace, transportation, graphics and signage, building and construction, and now in roofing.  When the film is applied to metal panels, it enables excellent longevity and performance in extreme environments, without coastal restrictions.  Working exclusively with Metal Alliance, a premier supplier of prime grade metal coil and flat, DuPont has them as the exclusive provider of DuPont™ Tedlar® PVF Film on metal panel roofing and wall systems.  Corynn and Tara will talk about the future of metal protection and why film offers a great alternative for long term warranties and performance.

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Coffee Conversations celebrates Women's History Month with thought-leading women who will reflect on the role women have played and are playing in the roofing industry. The legacy of amazing women in roofing and the women in between who have continued to push for inclusion will be a main topic along with recruiting the next generation of women in roofing. Pour a cup of coffee and join us for this insightful and important topic.

In this episode of Roofing Road Trips, learn how to fight the labor shortage with prefabricated roof flashings & accessories.  Greg Marrow of FlashCo visits with Heidi J. Ellsworth on the important topic of learning new technologies and techniques that reduce labor needs while improving performance of crews and overall quality of final roofing systems.  More and more roofing products are being prefabricated, saving time and labor on the roof.  Greg shares how roofing companies can embrace the technology and processes of prefabrication.

This month's topic: "What is your advice for running and growing a family business?"

Heidi J. Ellsworth visits with Gary Cohen of Certified Contractor Network (CCN) about their upcoming conference - CCN’s RENOVATE Spring Conference.  It will be taking place from April 28-30, 2022 in sunny Scottsdale, AZ at the fantastic Talking Stick Resort. RoofersCoffeeShop will be there.  Gary and Heidi have a great conversation in this Roofing Road Trip about the importance of ongoing education, training and networking for every roofing professional and how CCN has been delivering that for decades.

In this informational Coffee Conversations sponsored by National Roofing Partners, we dive into the confusing and potentially dangerous world of safety certification for equipment operators. Many roofing companies are trying to navigate the changing classifications for ANSI A92 standards for mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs). As equipment evolves so do training and certification standards. The experts from United Rentals, National Roofing Partners, RainCoat Roofing and Springer-Peterson Roofing talk about the requirements, confusion and liabilities that roofing companies are experiencing. Pour your cup of coffee, get your questions and safety director ready for this very important conversation.