My story
I started out as a roofer, not a salesman. My family has been in roofing and construction for more than 50 years, and I started roofing at 12. I've carried bundles up ladders and torn off tile in August heat, and I still look at a roof the way the crew installing it does.
At 18 I started my own roofing company as a cash contractor. In 2011 I took on my first out-of-state insurance reroof, and from there I built a national commercial roofing and restoration company with offices across the country. That company was RestoreMasters. In its best year it did $113 million, and it was recognized on the Inc. 5000 four years running and on Roofing Contractor's Top 100 list.
I've worked on storm losses worth more than $30 million, including ones that were denied at first until the damage was properly documented. I've served as an expert witness. Along the way I've worked with, competed against and vetted a few hundred roofing contractors, and I've learned exactly what separates the ones who finish the job right.
Running a national company taught me what the back office takes, and that it isn't where I do my best work. My passion is the field: being on the roof with our customers, documenting the damage, proving it to anyone who asks, and making sure the roof system that goes on is a great roof.
That's why SkyView handles every side of the storm industry, from the first inspection and the damage documentation to the repair scope, the roof design and the final walk-through, and why we've chosen the best installers in the industry to take care of our customers: Precision Construction and Roofing for specialty roofs, River City Roofing Co. for commercial roofs, and Capital Restoration for mitigation. I wanted a small, tight-knit team that knows every customer by name, backed by crews I'd put on my own house.
Read the rest of my story, with photos from the early days, at TeamIrvinHQ.com.
