Tropical Roofing Products Launches New YouTube Video: ‘How to Fix Ponding Issues’

New Video Part of Roof Repair & Restoration 101 YouTube Series Designed Specifically for Roofing Professionals

Tropical Roofing Products, a national manufacturer of quality products and innovative solutions for the professional roofer, announced today the launch of: How to Fix Ponding Issues - the latest in the series of Roof Repair & Restoration 101 educational YouTube videos produced by Tropical Roofing Products. 

The Roof Repair & Restoration 101 YouTube channel [http://bit.ly/Roofing-101-Educational-Videos] offers free videos on popular professional development topics for everyone who works in the professional roofing industry. The series includes practical titles such as:

• How to repair cracks and holes in a roof
• How to prepare a roof for restoration
• How to hookup an emulsion tanker to a spray unit
• How to hookup a 275 gallon tote to a spray unit
• How to spray asphalt emulsion
• How to spray white coatings

WATCH GOTROPICAL FIX THE PONDING ISSUE - FAST!

“Videos have always been a great way to share tips or information on a specific subject or topic.” Richard Zegelbone, Tropical Roofing Products President said. “And our videos are popular among roofing contractors, so we’re making more of them.” 

Tropical Roofing Products is a well-recognized, nationwide industrial and commercial roofing material manufacturer. Since 1954 they have provided commercial building products that are innovative, yet dependable. Recently they announced the Notice of Approval from Miami-Dade County [NOA] for their Roof Maintenance Coating System.  This means that instead of requiring a contractor to submit individual NOA's for each product used on a job, Tropical Roofing Products' new system approval allows the contractor to submit one NOA for the entire roof maintenance coating system.

In closing, Richard shared, “These Roof Repair & Restoration 101 videos help enhance our expanding online presence, and provide new avenues of communicating, collecting and sharing what contractors want and need.  It’s our job then, to deliver.”

The History of Tropical Roofing Products

Tropical was started in 1952 in Hallandale, Florida, by George Gleason, the cousin of Jackie Gleason. George ran the small, rural, company as part manufacture and also part distributor. However, as the landscape in Florida began to shift from rural to urban, the Gleason’s decided to put the company up for sale.

George Gleason sold the company to two women who had just gotten out of the Marine Corps. At this time, the company began to transform into a low end, price oriented company. Mostly selling driveway sealer to travelers, the company did not have the best reputation in the industry and had many tumultuous years.

Meanwhile, Richard Zegelbone was the youngest of 7 children born in Pittsfield, MA to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zegelbone, and was the first child in the family to attend college.  Jack was a chemical engineer for various companies around the country, and eventually took a job at a friend’s family business in Des Moines, Iowa. However, after his friend died, the sons running the family business fired Jack. Out of work at 63, Jack moved around the country and eventually to Miami Beach. After searching for a while, Jack took a job for minimum wage working the sales counter at the company owned by the two Marine Corps women. While working the sales counter, Jack knew that the women were about to go out of business, and decided to take his life savings of $20,000 and buy the company from them.  At that moment he called his son Richard, who had just graduated from college and was set to go to law school in the fall, and asked him to help run the company.

Richard worked various positions within the company, starting at the ground level in the warehouse and operating the forklift. As the Zegelbone’s took over the company, they started producing better quality products and professional grade materials. By creating better materials for their customers, the Zegelbone’s began selling product all over the state of Florida. By joining many different trade organizations, creating better materials, and adding organization throughout the company, Tropical began to shed their old and negative reputation.

Being active in trade organizations led Richard Zegelbone to meet a family with a similar manufacturing family business in Los Angeles, California. In 2001, Richard negotiated with the family, and bought the California facility to launch Tropical Roofing Products nationwide. A year later, Tropical Roofing Products expanded once again, and moved into a facility in Port Arthur, Texas.

Tropical Roofing Products has been successful in this industry for one simple reason; we develop good quality materials - moving away from old hazardous materials, and creating new products such as the PowerGel^TM structure.  Tropical Roofing Products continues to develop and create new asphalt and sustainable elastomeric coating products for our nationwide distribution demands.

For over 50 years, Tropical Roofing Products has supplied the industrial and commercial marketplace with the most dependable commercial roofing materials on the market.  More information can be found on our website: http://TropicalRoofingProducts.com.

Tropical Roofing Products Gains National Attention with Miami-Dade County Approval of Roof Maintenance Coating System

With the professional contractor and distributor at the forefront of product development efforts, Tropical Roofing Products prides themselves on their hands-on approach to the manufacturing process

HALLANDALE, FL. – APRIL 25, 2012 - Tropical Roofing Products, a national manufacturer of quality roofing products and innovative solutions for the professional roofer, announced today that they have received approval from Miami-Dade County for their Roof Maintenance Coating System. This recent milestone puts Tropical Roofing Products in an elite group of industry manufacturers who continually strive to improve the quality of their roofing products.

In order to receive approval for an entire roof maintenance coating system, Miami-Dade County conducts numerous tests, including extensive third party testing. The complete roof maintenance coating system is tested as a package, rather than by specific, individual products. Receiving an approval for a complete system makes the permitting process easier for the contractor, as well as the municipality.

Richard Zegelbone, President of Tropical Roofing Products has this to say; “Instead of requiring a contractor to submit individual NOA’s for each product used on a job, Tropical Roofing Products’ new system approval allows the contractor to submit one NOA for the entire roof maintenance coating system.”

Tropical Roofing Products is a well-recognized, nationwide industrial and commercial roofing material manufacturer. For over 50 years, Tropical Roofing Products has provided the market with innovative, yet dependable roofing materials. With the professional contractor and distributor at the forefront of product development efforts, Tropical Roofing Products prides themselves on their hands-on approach to the manufacturing process.

“We’re delighted to be one of few roof coating manufacturers to receive an approval for a complete roof maintenance coating system. At the very core of our business is the contractor, and we value any way we are able to alleviate stress from our customers.”  Richard Zegelbone said in closing.

About Tropical Roofing Products

For over 50 years, Tropical Roofing Products has supplied the industrial and commercial marketplace with the most dependable commercial roofing materials on the market. They develop superior roofing products at all three nationwide manufacturing facilities. This hands-on relationship with the manufacturing process gives an in-depth knowledge of every product that is developed and sold. For more information, please visit: http://tropicalroofingproducts.com.