Recently I attended the Annual Business Conference put on by the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce. It was a fantastic event, with a number of great speakers and insightful presentations.

It was during Casey Sheahan’s (CEO of Patagonia) presentation that the idea of 1% Close To Home came to mind. Casey was talking about the incredibly successful 1% For the Planet initiative that was started by Patagonia, in which companies commit 1% of their GROSS revenue to approved environmental causes.

My wife Nicki and I have always practiced giving a portion of our income to charitable organizations and events, giving till it hurts as the saying goes, but I began to wonder what our company’s policy, if any, should look like. Although we are concerned about environmental causes, the focus of 1% FTP seemed too narrow. What is truly important to Umbrella Roofing, it’s employees and owners?

The only answer is OUR COMMUNITY! The community that has blessed us so greatly with the opportunity to live and work in the Roaring Fork Valley. This is where our heart lies and so it follows that this is where our giving will occur.

So here goes – BEGINNING JANUARY 1ST 2011 UMBRELLA ROOFING WILL GIVE 1% OF IT’S GROSS REVENUE TO ROARING FORK VALLEY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND EVENTS. There. I said it.

Customers don’t worry! We will not be raising our prices to offset this new budget line item. It will only affect our bottom line, and the real bottom line is that we are a part of this community. You may, however, feel free to feel good about doing business with us.

1% Close To Home – it’s going to be awesome!

With the chaos of the pre-Christmas rush to get all of our customers projects buttoned up, it is easy to forget the real reason we show up every day with our “game face”.

Umbrella Roofing is here for the betterment of the lives in which we touch. Our employees, our customers, our vendors, and anyone else that we have the privilege to come in contact with. God bless all of you for making this possible!

On a personal note, here’s the reason I show up every day – The Cannon Family Xmas Card, just follow the link:

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Have a wonderful and prosperous New Year!

Nestled just down the hill from the quarry that produced the marble for none other than the Lincoln Memorial, and numerous other monuments in D.C., is this little mountain paradise on which we just completed the roof installation. We installed a “Pro-Panel” roof, or as we like to call it in the industry an “exterior fastened rolled formed  24 gage steel panel roof”. Actually we never call it that, I just want to sound like we know what we’re talking about.

As a roofing contractor in the mountains we get to do some pretty cool installations. This Pro-Panel roof replacement project involved two “mountain specific” details. After removing the roof we built up the fascia and added 4″ rigid insulation (staggered to minimize thermal breaks), and installed a new plywood roof deck. We also, at the owners request, installed an exceptionally large valley to aid the flow of the glacier that forms there every year. The insulation will go a long ways to minimize the ice damming that was occurring, and the wide valley will help as well.

Nice work guys!

The finest roofing contractor team in the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond! We are proud to serve Aspen, Snowmass, Basalt, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs, CO.

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