72 | Canterbury Roof Painting CONTRACTING Target Apparelmaster Proud to be associated with Canterbury Roof Painting 45A Epsom Road, Sockburn, Christchurch Phone: (03) 348 0089 admin@donco.co.nz www.donco.co.nz Sales – Service & Repairs • Water Blasters • Vacuum Cleaners • Hot/Cold Steam Cleaners • Diesel Heaters • Generators Annual Filing • Taxation Services • Annual Reporting • Accounting & Bookkeeping • Business Advisory • Set Fees 021 136 6068 natasja@coastca.co.nz Use the OR code for a link to our website Hadlee & Brunton are proud to have provided services throughout the South Island for 120 Years. Θ Long Distance Camera & Pipe Scanning Θ Design & Engineering for Θ Maxi Directional Drilling Θ Maxi Trenching Θ Ploughing Θ Pipe lining Design & Build Contracts A snippet of the infrastructure services we provide are identified below; We are experts in complex infrastructure construction and are the go-to company for trenchless installations in New Zealand. We own some of the most advanced machinery in the country and this enables us to handle large and technically challenging projects others shy away from. Top notch roofing... The Christchurch business completes about 50 to 60 roofs each roof painting season. T T Kelly Deeks Clean work-wear the target for family firm T T Emma Bailey Canterbury Roof Painting is taking a meticulous approach to one of the most demanding jobs on a house, with owner Shannon O’Donnell and his son Flynn putting the emphasis on preparation, honest advice, and getting the coating system right. The Christchurch business completes about 50 to 60 roofs each roof painting season, with most work coming through word of mouth and their website. About 60 to 70 percent of that work is on faded Colorsteel, much of it on roofs installed in the mid 90s and early 2000s that are now showing the coating failures Shannon has seen throughout his career. He says roof painting is far more involved than simply putting a new colour over an old surface. Every roof is inspected before work begins, with the company assessing its condition, substrate, pitch, style, defects, risks, and the coating system required. Clients receive a detailed written report and quote, including recommendations on how to proceed, and sometimes that advice is not to paint at all. “We will certainly steer the client away from coating if it’s not in the interest of the client to paint it,” Shannon says. “They might be better off investing their money in a brand-new roof, particularly when decramastic tile roofs are concerned, that may potentially contain asbestos.” Your dirty laundry will not be aired, as Target Apparelmaster continues to keep South Canterbury workers in pristine condition with their work-wear rental solutions and a full linen service. Timaru’s Target Apparelmaster fully manages work-wear and workplace rental solutions, taking care of uniforms, protective clothing, laundering, repairs and delivery. Four years ago, they started providing linen for hotels, motels and Air B’n’Bs, which has expanded the business significantly, owner/ operator, Deon Robertson, says. “We used to do 37 tonnes a month, now it can reach up to 30 tonnes a week. Linen is now over 50% of our volume. “We are just a business that has kept on going. We have 20-plus staff now full-time, and nine service vehicles plus trailers out there.” They travel to Tekapo three days a week and Central Otago twice a week. Deon’s mother, Bev Green, started Target Drycleaners about 34 years ago and then within the next year joined the Apparelmaster franchise. “It would have been about 13 years ago when I joined the business,” says Deon. “The Apparelmaster group has set boundaries for each operator. Target Apparelmaster covers up to the Rangitata and down to the Waitaki and inland to Omarama. “We are just a business that has kept on going. We have 20-plus staff now full-time, and nine service vehicles plus trailers out there.” “This gives the group the strength as we are not competing with each other. We help each other and can share information and ideas.” Nationally, Apparelmaster has taken on the work-wear contract for Fonterra, which began in October. For Deon, this means they will look after the Studholme Dairy Factory and Clandeboye. It’s a precise art with the chemicals they use, which they contract to FluidChristeyns NZ, a hygiene and industrial chemical manufacturing company. “They’re checking the chemistry settings for every wash and what’s going out every cycle. We need that all tested for Assure quality certification. “They come down every month to make sure we are on spec,” Deon says. They have to be very mindful of the food industry standards for their hospitality clients, and have strict rules to follow. “The staff have to be hair-netted and wear dust coats making sure when they are bagging up with uniforms so there is no chance of cross-contamination.” When a roof is suitable for recoating, the preparation becomes the biggest part of the job. On a faded or deteriorating Colorsteel roof, the team uses about 4000 PSI of pressure to remove degraded coating, along with moss, lichen, mould, pollen, dirt, and other contaminants. Every part of the surface needs attention because any loose material left behind can become a weak point beneath the new coating, causing it to fail. “That’s the hard part,” Shannon says. “If you don’t prepare it properly, the new coating is eventually going to delaminate from the existing substrate (break away from the steel), and cause serious issues in the years to come when it is time for a repaint.” It is physically demanding work, too, particularly on steep roofs with multiple angles and architectural features, and comes with the added risk of working at height. With several hundred roofs completed over the past six or seven years, Shannon says the business has built its reputation by doing the job properly and being upfront about what a roof needs. “We’ve got plenty of work through word of mouth, and that seems to be continually building, and our Google reviews certainly reflect that,” he says. “We just want to make sure we keep doing a good job and looking after our clients.”
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