Roofing Contractor Software in Nebraska

Nebraska registers contractors at the state level and licenses them at the city level, and a roofer needs both. Any contractor earning $5,000 a year from construction work registers with the Department of Labor, with a workers' comp certificate on file if the company has employees. That is the state's floor. Omaha and Lincoln run their own contractor licensing on top of it, with classes, exams, bonds, and insurance requirements that go well past the state registration, and a roofing company that works both cities carries both licenses plus the state registration.

The storm law is the Insured Homeowners Protection Act, in force since 2012. A residential contractor working on a house of up to four units cannot rebate any part of the insurance deductible or pay the homeowner any compensation beyond something of nominal value, and a homeowner who signed under pressure after a storm has a right to cancel, with any payment returned within ten days less the cost of emergency work like tarping. After a hailstorm the trucks that offer a free roof are offering something the law says is fraud.

The storms are the business. The Omaha and Lincoln corridor sits in one of the worst hail belts in the country, and most summers bring at least one event that puts a whole suburb on the phone. Class 4 impact-resistant shingles have a real market here because insurers offer discounts for them. The plains wind does the rest, lifting shingles all winter and driving the spring repair calls.

The growth is west of Omaha and south of Lincoln. Elkhorn, Papillion, Gretna, and Bennington have been building subdivisions for twenty years, and the first waves of builder-grade shingles there are aging out now. The older stock in Dundee, Benson, and near-south Lincoln has layers to tear off, and Grand Island, Kearney, and North Platte are older still, with a longer winter and deeper frost.