How a Roofing CEO Built a Brand Beyond Roofing
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Who is Thomas Drake and what does Tom Drake Roofing specialize in?
i'm a roofing ceo in texas we focus primarily on higher-end residential homes we like to do whales you know obviously big big roofs that we can win awards for this is a little bit more of a big big boy big girl sale if you don't get a foot in there you're not going to win that storm thomas drake is an entrepreneur roofing expert and the founder of tom drake roofing company he helps homeowners protect and restore their properties through premium roofing solutions trusted expertise and a customer first approach built on quality and integrity
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My name is Thomas Drake. I'm a roofing CEO in Texas.
All right. So we're in Texas. Yeah. All right. Which part is a big state?
Well, bigger than most countries, right? Huge state, no, but primarily DFW.
Okay. Yeah. That's Dallas, Fort Worth. Dallas, Fort Worth. Okay, okay.
Dallas, Fort Worth. Sorry about that.
All right, all right. So, Jesus, now I think roofing Dallas is hot. Buskets. It's super, super hot, right?
Yeah, it hasn't got there yet this year, but generally it's, you know, you get in the hundreds, 110s.
Yeah.
Obviously on a roof, it's even, you know, it's crazy up there. So thank God for drones, right?
Okay. How many guys you got on your team? About 20. About 20. And yeah, how do you keep them safe up there with it being so hot?
Well, you got to go over safety protocols. You got to make sure guys know what they're doing. Of course. Sales guys do pretty well with it. You know, they don't have all the other guys, you know, that are around them. Obviously, the crews. Yeah. You know, they got to be all tied off with a harness. Yeah. And, you know, have all the safety equipment with them. So, no, I mean, we do very well. Our people are very well coordinated. Yeah. And take those precautions.
Yeah. They got the coolers. They got the ice pads.
Oh, yeah. Geez, man. No Modelo's at work.
Oh, my God. And they probably, hopefully they got sunscreen, right? My wife's always like, sunscreen, sunscreen, right? It's like the number one.
I think a lot of them you see have the wicker hat.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, now they got the ones with the Bluetooth fans, right? Maybe upgrade them, you know? Wow. Okay, so like what kind of roofs are we talking about? Housing?
So we focus primarily on higher-end residential homes. All right. You know, that doesn't mean that we don't do, you know, a smaller home, a regular home.
Yeah.
What did you call a regular home? But, you know, we like to do whales, you know, obviously big, big roofs that we can win awards for. Yeah. We've done that a few years and that's part of our culture.
Okay. So what kind of roofs? I mean, I'm a muggle when it comes to this, right? Like if you're thinking about Harry Poggle, you got the muggles and you got the wizards, right? So I'll be asking you from a muggle point of view, right? But there's all different kinds of roofs, right? I think if I think about my home in Connecticut, it was like shingles, I think you call them, right? And then the ones that I'm in Thailand, right?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Thomas Drake and what does Tom Drake Roofing specialize in?
0:00–6:03
2
How does Thomas keep crews safe and manage heat risk on Texas roofs?
6:03–9:00
3
What types of roofing materials and projects does the company focus on?
9:00–15:46
4
How does Thomas use drones and storm-chasing to find roof replacement opportunities?
15:46–18:44
5
Why is timing crucial after storm damage and how do teams pivot quickly?
18:44–20:51