re: I don’t remember people getting new roofs when I was younger.

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It’s become a lucrative industry. A contractor nets $5K per roof/day for residential. The number of “roofing contractors” that have spawned in the last 8 yrs is insane. It’s also riding the social media wave as a top entrepreneurial path.

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I have a buddy that owned a roofing distribution company in DFW and they recently sold out. He said he wanted to sell at this time because insurance companies are starting to squeeze the contractors and the contractors were pushing the squeeze to the distributor. He's now retired in his young 40s. Happy for him. But I'm curious how the industry looks in another 5 years or so.

He's also told me in times past that the industry is feast or famine. A hail storm would roll through and all the roofers would roll up in decked out lifted 3/4 tons and then a couple years later during a drought year, they would all be working out of work trucks or less than half ton trucks. It's a construction industry and owners/ workers largely don't put money aside for the drought years.

22 ga is still widely available in PBR panel

I remember replacing our own roof twice growing up. Dad called a couple of relatives and knocked it out. Ranch style house so easier than the modern roof.