Interview With Longtime Contractor, Trent Lovewell Of Weatherguard, Inc


Trent Lovewell Of Weatherguard, Inc. was sort sufficient to do an interview with us about our inexperienced roof methods.  Thanks, Trent, for the interview.

1. How did you first uncover DaVinci?

Larry Koom from Builder’s Provide in Omaha launched it to me.  After which Tim Gentry, who was previously with DaVinci Roofscapes, got here as much as Omaha to do an set up demonstration of the product.

2. What do you want about DaVinci? Colour blends? Form of tiles? Efficiency?

In Omaha, we love the truth that it’s Class 4 as a result of we get a whole lot of hail – and we don’t have to fret about re-roofing our DaVinci tasks!

I additionally love the look of DaVinci’s composite slate.  I’m additionally an enormous fan of the waffle again of a DaVinci shingle as an alternative of the stable again of among the rivals.  I do know that waffle again makes positive that DaVinci doesn’t bend, curl or warp, so once more, I don’t have to fret about returning to my DaVinci jobs.  Additionally, the no fading a part of DaVinci is large — we did the primary DaVinci roof in Omaha in 2005 and there’s no fading nonetheless.  It was the Aberdeen mix.  We additionally just like the thickness.

3. What’s the largest factor that householders say to you about DaVinci?

They love the skilled look. After the job is completed, they are saying that they like being the one ones within the neighborhood with a DaVinci roof as a result of they really feel like they are setting a development.

4.  Why do you want DaVinci? 

Love the look of artificial slate roof tile.  The efficiency is flawless and naturally, NO FADING.

5. Are there householders that you just wouldn’t suggest DaVinci to? 

No, I’d suggest it to anybody.  While you’re speaking about roofing, upper-end roofing – you need one thing that can beautify your house – Weatherguard desires you to be the envy of the neighborhood and we are going to beautify your roof to your liking.

6. What DaVinci merchandise have you ever labored with? 

Each slate and shake.  We’ve accomplished the Single-Width Slate and Single-Width Shake too, as a result of the house owner was attempting to economize. The Choose Shake can also be an amazing product. There are a whole lot of neighborhoods in Omaha that each one have pure shake, so DaVinci is the right alternative for them as a result of these houses aren’t engineered to carry the load of slate, so that they should go along with DaVinci or pure shake.  In fact, they’ll be changing their roof once more quickly in the event that they go along with shake, so we favor them to go along with DaVinci.

7. Which DaVinci merchandise do you want? Do you could have a favourite coloration mix?

Aberdeen mix – we just like the mixtures of colours — the plum, the mulberry, the inexperienced and the gray — Aberdeen jogs my memory of how slate roofs within the 1800s used to look.

8. What different roofing merchandise do you put in?

Slate, tile, asphalt, wooden shakes, wooden shingles.

9. Of the supplies you put in, do you could have a desire of what materials you want to put in? Why?

DaVinci.  We’ve put in greater than 700 DaVinci roofs. We love the pre-bundled packages as a result of it makes the job go lots faster and smoother.

10. How lengthy have you ever been within the roofing  enterprise? 

24 years personally … and our firm is happening 40 years.

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This weblog was initially posted in 2010.