Bruce Sullivan
Contributing Member
For a few years now I have often wondered if Florida had cedar roofs. This last summer I got a request from a cedar roof home owner, in central Florida, wanting to know if I knew anyone there that cleaned cedar roofs.
Maria & I went to Central Florida for a vacation a couple weeks ago. We spent the first day visiting the home of the above home owner and also researching the surrounding communities.
Though we only spent about 6 hours searching in a small area we came up with 421 addresses to market to that have cedar roofs.
There are a lot of gated communities in Florida that you cannot get direct access to but once we know the name of the community we can gather any cedar roofs there. We have a system for that.
I have been told there are no cedar roofs in Florida. Our research goes to show there is. This will make a great winter spot for us as Iowa doesn't offer the weather for cleaning cedar or any roof in the winter.
As to the home owner that had contacted us. I closed the cleaning for a third of the cost they had been quoted by a local cleaner. Also closed another cleaning just driving by while they were in the yard working.
After the New Year we are going to do a direct mail marketing project for these addresses and looks like we are heading for Central Florida. Talk about low hanging fruit. LOL
Just goes to show there are cedar roofs everywhere, just have to look for them. We have found that most cedar roof home owners want to keep their cedar roof.
What is the one roofing material " that has to be maintained"? Cedar.
I know many cleaners don't do cedar or feel they are hard to do. Then there is the debate of the "proper" process to clean them. We are way past all that.
This is a niche service that has little or no competition. They are low hanging fruit in the cleaning service.
Maria & I went to Central Florida for a vacation a couple weeks ago. We spent the first day visiting the home of the above home owner and also researching the surrounding communities.
Though we only spent about 6 hours searching in a small area we came up with 421 addresses to market to that have cedar roofs.
There are a lot of gated communities in Florida that you cannot get direct access to but once we know the name of the community we can gather any cedar roofs there. We have a system for that.
I have been told there are no cedar roofs in Florida. Our research goes to show there is. This will make a great winter spot for us as Iowa doesn't offer the weather for cleaning cedar or any roof in the winter.
As to the home owner that had contacted us. I closed the cleaning for a third of the cost they had been quoted by a local cleaner. Also closed another cleaning just driving by while they were in the yard working.
After the New Year we are going to do a direct mail marketing project for these addresses and looks like we are heading for Central Florida. Talk about low hanging fruit. LOL
Just goes to show there are cedar roofs everywhere, just have to look for them. We have found that most cedar roof home owners want to keep their cedar roof.
What is the one roofing material " that has to be maintained"? Cedar.
I know many cleaners don't do cedar or feel they are hard to do. Then there is the debate of the "proper" process to clean them. We are way past all that.
This is a niche service that has little or no competition. They are low hanging fruit in the cleaning service.