During the pandemic, roofing jobs for investment companies took Mountain View Roofing and Construction from its home base in Colorado Springs all the way into Wyoming. The owner remembers how fast the trips went. “With the traffic and everything kind of being dead, we were able to get around a lot quicker during that period of time,” he says.
He knows it was a horrible situation for a lot of people. For his company, though, the work picked up. “We ended up being a lot more busy than before,” he says.
The work came through people he was already working with, investment companies and real estate agents among them. The investment companies were buying a lot of fixer-upper houses, and his crews did a lot of the roofing on them, far enough out that the jobs crossed the state line.
Those relationships go back a long way. The owner was born and raised in Colorado Springs. He got into construction around 2012 and partnered with a general contractor, a friend of his, until 2019. That year he started his own roofing company, and he remains its only owner. The company holds both roofing and general contractor licenses, and its website lists remodeling work alongside roofing, including basements and kitchens. By his estimate, about 95 percent of the work is residential.
He puts what he wants the company known for in plain terms. “I’m the owner. I don’t want to see anyone have any leaks or anything like that,” he says.
He hears a steady run of stories from homeowners about contractors who took their money and did part of the job, or none of it. He once met with a homeowner whose contractor had taken part of the payment and never come back. His company, he says, ends up fixing a lot of that work.
He ties his own standard to having spent his whole life in one place and wanting a good name among the people he lives near. “I don’t want anyone thinking that we’re doing a bad job,” he says. One of his salesmen has lived in the area nearly all his life, he says, and the same goes for the project managers.
On a job, he says, the installation crews and project managers make sure the work is done and done correctly. Appointments get kept, and customers don’t go without hearing from the company. If something does come up, he gets involved himself.
The company’s list of service areas still runs well beyond its hometown, from Fountain, Monument and Manitou Springs north to Castle Rock and Denver.
The commercial side is small and, in his words, all over the place. Over the years the company has roofed “some of the Starbucks in Colorado Springs,” he says, along with “a couple churches” and “some bars.”