A team of Cornwall flat roof specialists is marking four decades of keeping the rain out of buildings around the UK.
JR Flat Roofing is one of Cornwall’s most successful roofing companies, with contracts ranging from protecting high-profile coastal hotels to topping-off grand locations for JD Wetherspoon and refurbishing service station roofs all over the UK.
The firm was chosen to re-roof Richmond’s Poppy Factory — the building where remembrance poppies have been made since 1922 to provide rehabilitation and employment for wounded service people. This is apt because the firm was founded in 1983 by the late John Rogers, who, having grown up in challenging circumstances, side-stepped a life of crime to join the UK Armed Forces and turn his life around.
Having served in the Parachute Regiment, he set up the roofing business which, today, 11 years after his loss to illness, it is still being driven by three of his children; Nick, Phil and Marion while his other son, Adam, is a commercial airline pilot.
While JR Flat Roofing has earned its colours as a national provider, it has remained true to its Cornish roots. The firm has fresh plans to build a new office at Scorrier’s West Cornwall Business Park alongside developing other domestic and commercial buildings.
Office manager, Marion Rogers, said: “Time flies, but in the last ten years the company has grown stronger and achieved so much.
“Our team has grown from a single office run by just me to five of us today. We have a highly-trained and qualified workforce and our commercial portfolio has grown from strength to strength with contracts all over the UK.”
She added: “When I look back on the 40 years since Dad set up the business and how far it has come in just the last ten, I’m really proud that we can focus on the fact that, for all our national success, our staff are Cornwall-based and the money all comes back to the county at the end of the day.
“I think Dad would have been proud.”
