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 ringing and estimates are going out, business can be considered healthy.
CDA has been family-owned and operated for the past 11 years in Agawam, since Clarke Dore and Jimmy Acerra merged their roofing busi- nesses to strengthen their clientele. Dore owned and operated CDA Roofing, but primarily focused on residential shingle work. When merging the two companies, Acerra brought forth his expertise on commercial roofing; he has earned an A+ rat- ing with Firestone Building Products, a leading roofing-products manufacturer.
“When things are heavy, you need heavy trucks that are capable of moving really heavy materials, and they use a lot of diesel.”
A healthy flow of business doesn’t necessarily mean a peak year, however. Dore said he and his team have a theory: during a typical summer, kids are home from school and people are on sum- mer vacations, but as the weather starts to change and people are getting their kids back into school mode, there’s an influx in business.
But this year, the recession has caused some hesitancy among homeowners.
“It was slow in the sense that people were a little gun-shy, I think, to commit. Regardless of the size of your house, roofing is a huge project, whether it’s a million-dollar mansion or a modest cape or even a shed or doghouse,” he said, not-
Workers for Valley Roofing and Restoration make progress on a residential roof replacement.
     ing that issues like inflation and the supply chain are disrupting homeowners’ decisions. “There’s a million fingers pointed at the highest level of gov- ernment down to the local government. Who’s to really blame? Everyone’s got their theories.”
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Thomas Morin, owner of Valley Roofing and Restoration, agreed and said that people are being more conscious about what they’re spending their money on and “comparing apples to apples for every estimate.”
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