Aside from its sectional repair business, Roof Repair, Inc. also does Total Restoration of Major Full Roofs

Full Roof Restoration Underway and Due to be Completed in 2009:

Bennett Hofford Construction (South Park Office Building), Charleston, SC
Sheraton Hotel, N. Charleston, SC

Full Roofs Completed in 2009:

Williamsburg County Detention Center, Kingstree, SC
Lafarge Building Materials, Harleyville, SC
Hampton Inn, Mt. Pleasant, SC

Full Roofs Completed in 2008:

Beach Company: EMA Building in North Charleston
Beach Company: Food Lion at the Brookgreen Shopping Center in Mt. Pleasant
Hagemayer North America: Operations Facility in North Charleston
Charleston Music Hall on John Street in downtown Charleston
Regency Condos in North Charleston
Alcoa, Mt. Holly: Cast House Roof
Smith Family Cleaners
Los Reyes Restaurant

Full Roofs Completed in 2007:

Beach Company entire shopping center at Ashley River Road and Wallenberg in West Ashley.
Beach Company entire shopping center at Quadrangle in West Ashley
Money Man Pawn in Lake City
Cisco's Cafe in West Ashley
The Econolodge in Summerville
Selden Mast in North Charleston
Plymouth Church in Charleston

Taking Success to New Heights

6 October 2007
Reprinted from Charleston Regional Business Journal

INNOVATION: As a research chemist and former owner of a research and development company, Michael J. Gerace has developed, and commercialized numerous adhesive and sealant products for both contruction and automotive applictions. Gerace's Roof Repairs Inc. is providing an economic method for turning recycled paint wastes into products for roofing applications.

Michael J. Gerace is a Brooklyn-born research chemist and the former owner of a Dayton, Ohio-based research and development company.

While on a trip to visit his son in Charleston, the chemist and owner of Roof Repairs Inc. saw an opprotunity to put his work of almost two decades to a practical test.

I felt I had to step up and in the words of The Eagles, 'Take it to the Limit,'" Gerace said. "I immediately liked the area when I came down back in 2000. I took time to talk with people at the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce. They were very helpful and the rest is all part of a process that began 19 years ago."

Today, Roof Repairs has used Gerace's technology for recycling construction wastes and substantially reduced costs to replace leaky flat roofs while reducting solid (roof tear-offs) and liquid (old paint) wastes that would normally end up in a landfill.

"We recently worked with The Beach Co. to recycle 200 55-gallon drums of paint wastes. We've also converted 5,000 gallons of wastes from automotive plants," Gerace said.

The resultant product, a watertight sealant is marketed under Gerace's Aster companies and its brands. In the process, Roof Repair Inc. has become a leader in the growing industry of practical and environmentally responsible construction companies through focus on efficiency and practicality.

"We combined two R&D companies as part of Phase I with manufacturing as a vertical component," Gerace said.

"There are roofs everywhere, but we are, at the moment, a very tiny company, providing a consumer service and creating patents&mdashall with 11 people. My sense is we need to start looking beyond the tri-county."

That next level, Phase II of Gerace's plan, is to grow Roof Repairs' core roofing business in South Carolina and use the profits to expandvthe recycling roofing efforts beyond the state.

"We beleive that eventually strategic partnerships and or technical licensing will be the best route to expand the technology worldwide, and we're working with the chamber to create a strategic plan," Gerace said.

Roof Repair, Inc. Among Top 10 Innovators 2007

June 18 2007

Charleston, SC -- Roof Repair is chosen as one of the top 10 innovators of 2007. The annual award, presented by the Charleston Regional Business Journal, honors individuals and organizations that have demonstrated the spirit of innovation by creating new products, sevices, programs or processes that have had a positive effect on their business, industry or community.

Michael Gerace, owner of Roof Repair, Inc. and the patented products and processes applied by the company, has proven his paint waste recycling model, making it possible for Low Country busineesses and property owners to realize a cost savings for choosing to go "green" when it come to making capital improvements on their facilities. Over more than six years, hundreds of thousands of square feet of Charleston rooftops have received this unique restoration treatment, savings local building owners and property managers hundreds of thousands of dollars that would normally have gone to whole-roof tear-off and replacement. Satisfied customers know their money is not being spend on adding debris to Low Country landfills.

The top innovator of 2007 will be acknowledged at an event scheduled for Thursday, 19 July at the Charleston Marriot. Tickets are available through the Charleston Regional Business Journal.