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Four ways to get your data out of a business system compared on what they actually return, what they cost in staff time, and which paperwork decides the answer.
Continue reading Your Vendor Says You Can Export. Which Route Actually Gives You a Working Copy
Three bids, three lifespans, one price gap. The shingle manufacturer sets most of the rules that decide whether a roof lasts, and almost nobody reads them.
Continue reading Roof Quotes in Hand? Five Checks, and the Company Nobody in the Room Works For
The number printed on a roofing bundle is a test result, not a forecast. Three people adjacent to your decision can translate it, and they will usually do it for free.
Continue reading A Fifty Year Shingle and a Twenty Year Roof. Who Will Tell You Why
Export buttons look fine in week one. What matters is what comes out in year eight, when you are leaving and the clock is running.
Continue reading Five Things to Check Before You Trust a Vendor to Hand Your Data Back
Published completion and placement rates are averages over a denominator somebody else defined. Four people adjacent to the decision can tell you what the number leaves out.
A property manager with two matching buildings found one was burning through floor finish twice as fast. The cause was eight feet of missing entry matting, and the bill landed in four other budgets.
Continue reading Two Identical Lobbies, One Shortened Mat. Where the Extra Cost Showed Up