ABOUT / ATLAS CONTRACTING GROUP
Four owners.
Four routes into
the same trade.
Two of us came out of insurance claims, one out of sales and construction, and one has thirty years of building behind him. Most roofing companies are genuinely good at one part of this job. Atlas was put together to cover the parts that usually get dropped.
THE SHORT VERSION
“Every part of a roofing job could be done better. So we built a company that is not weak at any of them.”
01 / WHO OWNS ATLAS
Two from claims.
Two from
building.
The mix is deliberate rather than accidental. A company that only understands the insurance side misjudges the building, and one that only understands building misjudges the paperwork.
01
From public adjusting.
The founder. Five years in roofing, starting as a public insurance adjuster specializing in roofing claims and now working as a contractor as well. He started Atlas on the conviction that every part of the job could be done better than he was watching it be done.
02
The same route, again.
A second owner who arrived the same way. She began on the claims side, adjusting roofing losses, and moved into contracting from there. Two owners who have read a roof from the insurer’s side of the file is not a common thing in this trade.
03
From sales and construction.
A third owner out of the building and commercial side rather than the insurance one. He brings a different set of instincts about how a job gets scoped, sold, and actually delivered on a schedule.
04
Thirty years in construction.
A fourth owner with three decades on the tools and running work. He has been building for longer than this company has existed, and longer than the rest of us have been in roofing at all.
Names and individual profiles go here as we publish them.
02 / WHAT THAT MIX CHANGES
Four parts
of a job, and
nobody guessing.
A roofing job is not one skill. It is four, and most companies are genuinely strong at one or two of them and improvising the rest.
WHERE EACH PART COMES FROM
Somebody here
has done this
part before.
- The bid — specified properly, so it can actually be compared against another one
- The insurer — documented so the file is clear, within the limits set out below
- The roof — built to the scope that was written down, by people who have built a great many of them
- The explanation — so you understand what you are buying before you buy it
The documentation habit came from the claims side. Adjusting roofing losses means years of looking at roofs through a different question: not only what is wrong, but what has been recorded, how clearly, and whether it holds up when somebody else reads the file later.
The building judgment came from the other direction, and from a good deal longer. Thirty years of construction is the difference between knowing what a scope says and knowing whether it can be built that way, on that roof, in that week.
It is why every service page here asks what evidence supports a recommendation, and why the proposals say plainly what the work will consist of. That is not a marketing position. It is what happens when the people who own the company have each done a different part of the job.
03 / WHERE THE LINE IS
We do not
adjust your
claim.
Two of us came from that side and one of those licenses is current, so this matters more here than it would at most roofing companies. Arizona law separates these roles deliberately, and it is worth stating plainly rather than glossing over.
01
A contractor cannot adjust your claim.
Under A.R.S. 32-1158.02, a contractor doing post-storm repair may not act as your adjuster, may not negotiate your settlement, and may not assure you that the work will be covered.
02
An adjuster cannot build the roof.
The reverse applies too. An adjuster may not participate in repairing property they adjusted, including as a contractor or subcontractor.
03
A license held is not a license used on your roof.
The separation Arizona draws is property by property: an adjuster may not work on the repair of a property they adjusted. On an Atlas roof, Atlas is your contractor and nothing else. If you want a public adjuster, hire one with no connection to us.
04
What we will do.
Document the roof thoroughly and describe the work in writing. If you want us to talk to your insurer about a dispute, that is allowed with your consent and without us charging for it. What we will never do is tell you a claim will be approved.
04 / CERTIFICATION
Trained to judge
whether a roof
needs replacing.
Held by Atlas and verifiable with the body that issued it.
01
Certified Repairability Assessor
Building Experts Institute — Assessing whether a damaged asphalt shingle roof can be repaired rather than replaced, using a method published through the National Academy of Forensic Engineers.
WHAT WE HAVE NOT PUT HERE YET
The certification above is one Atlas holds, and you can verify it with the body that issued it. What you will not find here yet is customer reviews or a gallery of our projects, because Atlas is new and we would rather show nothing than borrow someone else’s. Photographs of our own completed work and reviews from real customers go up as they exist. If you want to see work before you commit, ask and we will tell you honestly what we can show you.
See how we work.
The easiest way to judge a roofer is on your own roof. The inspection costs nothing and ends with a written report.