“We really needed a win”

By Jenny Yu.  

Enjoy this heartwarming story of two roofing companies giving back to a veteran in need of a new roof.  

Bone Dry Roofing and Owens Corning have had a long supplier-contractor relationship. This past summer, they teamed up for a different kind of partnership.  

For three years, Army veteran Timothy Nichols saved up for a new roof for his home in Lexington, Kentucky. “It got to the point where there's almost more patches than solid roof,” Timothy told LEX18. “We knew that it was getting close, and we were hoping that we had saved enough to cover the roof.” 

Their AC unit, however, had other plans.  

“Literally a day before Bone Dry Roofing came out to give me a quote or an estimate on the roof, our AC went out,” Timothy shared. “That basically ate up our savings for what we were planning on doing for a roof.” 

Thankfully, the team at Bone Dry Roofing told Timothy about Owens Corning’s Roof Deployment Project, which provides free roof replacements for veterans. Kelly Street of Owens Corning told WKYT, “We love to give back to veterans who have sacrificed so much for our country; it’s a small way that we can show appreciation.” 

Owens Corning supplied the materials and Bone Dry Roofing supplied the labor for Timothy’s roof replacement, which would have cost $12,000 to $13,000. “We try to do one a year,” Jade Marsh, general manager of Bone Dry Roofing, said. “We've been successful for I think the last four years finding a candidate that was deserving and in need of a new roof.” 

“Good stuff like this just doesn't happen to me,” Timothy expressed. “It couldn’t have happened at a better time. We just really needed a win.”